Sam Moses
sam@autosnark.com

Sam Moses has been a motor journalist for nearly four decades. He was editor of a motorcycle magazine at the dawn of the superbike era, followed by 17 years as the motorsports writer for Sports Illustrated during the golden years of Indy cars and NASCAR. He was deputy editor at AutoWeek, and for the last 12 years has written auto reviews for www.newcartestdrive.com.

He’s been a racer since he was 12, from karts to superbikes to the famous Bandit, a 630-horsepower 1982 Oldsmobile IMSA GTX historic racecar that he drives today.

Sam is the author of Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots, a rollicking racing memoir named one of the five best books ever written about motorsports; and At All Costs, a critically acclaimed and harrowing page-turner of a story about the naval convoy that turned the tide of World War II. Signed copies of either book can be found on his website www.sammoses.com.

During the dotcom boom, Sam was creative director of a pioneering Website that covered the Mount Everest climbing season in almost-real time.

With two climbing partners, he put the first free ascent up a 3000-foot big wall to the summit of mysterious Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea, at 16,023 feet the tallest mountain in Oceania, led there by erstwhile cannibals wearing only penis gourds; that expedition led to a 10,000-word two-part story in SI. On whitewater, he put the first modern descent down the remote and treacherous River of Doubt in the Brazilian Amazon, through hostile indian territory, retracing the 1914 expedition of Theodore Roosevelt; that expedition led to the manuscript River Without a Cause, a novel in progress.

Besides AutoSnark, he’s currently working on a single-dad parenting memoir, titled It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This: The True Life Adventures of Papa Madre and the AngloArabAsian Brothers.

Sam lives in the Pacific Northwest with his two young sons, one a star athlete and the other a star actor.