with the National Headliner Award, the Chicago Newspaper Guild's Page One Award, the Washington State Governor's Award, and the Scripps-Howard Award. He was described as "the dean of true crime authors" by The Washington Post. His crime studies remain on required reading lists in university criminology courses. In his obituary, The New York Times described his work as "a genuine contribution to criminology and journalism alike." Olsen lived on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and died on July 16, 2002. Books Fiction Alphabet Jackson (1974) Massy's Game (1976) The Secret of Fire 5 (1977) Night Watch (1979) Missing Persons (1981) Have You Seen My Son? (1982) Memoirs Over the Fence is Out (1961) The Pitcher's Kid (2002) Nonfiction The Climb up to Hell (1962) Black is Best (1967) Silence on Monte Sole (1968) Night of the Grizzlies (1969) Aphrodite: Desperate Mission (1969) The Bridge at Chappaquiddick (1970) The Man with the Candy (1974) Son: A Psychopath and his Victims (1983) Give a Boy a Gun (1985) Cold Kill (1987) Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell (1989) Predator: Rape, Madness, and Injustice in Seattle (1991) The Misbegotten Son (1993) Charmer (1994) Salt of the Earth (1996) Hasten to the Grave (1998) I: The Creation of a Serial Killer (1998) The Happy Face Killer (2008) Games and sports The Mad World of Bridge The Mad World of Bridge (Sports Illustrated) The Climb up to Hell (Harper & Row, 1962), 212 pp. – mountaineering Bridge is My Life: Lessons of a Lifetime, 189 pp. – "by Chas. H. Goren, with Jack Olson" Black is Best: The Riddle of Cassius Clay (Putnam, 1967) ; UK edition Cassius Clay: A biography (Pelham, 1967) – biography of Muhammad Ali In 1967, Olsen released his authorized biography of Muhammad Ali, titled, Black is Best: The Riddle of Cassius Clay. From the book flap cover, Olsen, writes, "Cassius Clay is far more important as an American phenomenon of the 1960s than as a prizefighter. In his career as a boxer, he followed a traditional, even a stereotyped road to the top for a Negro, but his distortion of the American rags-to-riches story is peculiarly his own." Olsen spent a considerable amount of time around the boxer, subjecting him to several interviews over a two-year time period. Olsen also interviews family members, past training staff, doctors, promoters, and over twenty different sources who worked with Ali. Sports Illustrated called