He has written two books in addition to Friday Night Lights: A Prayer for the City (1998), which offers insight into the urban political scene of Philadelphia during Mayor (now Governor of Pennsylvania) Ed Rendell's term in the 1990s and the New York Times' bestselling Three Nights in August (2005), which chronicles a series between the St. ESPN called Friday Night Lights the best book on sports over the past quarter-century. In a list of the one hundred best books on sports ever, Sports Illustrated ranked Friday Night Lights fourth and the best ever on football. The book has sold nearly two million copies. This work went on to become a successful film, which was released in October 2004 and a television series which debuted on NBC on October 3, 2006. He is perhaps best known for his book Friday Night Lights, which documents the 1988 season of the football team of Permian High School in Odessa, Texas.
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