Mary Pilon is the author of "The Monopolists," a book about the history of the board game Monopoly (Bloomsbury, February 2015). She previously worked as a sports reporter at The New York Times and a full index of her work there can be found here, including dispatches from the London Olympics, doping coverage, features on legal and financial issues in sports and the occasional video shot from a dog sled or graphic novel about cage fighting in the heartland.

From June 2008 to November 2011, Mary worked at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered various aspects of personal finance and the financial crisis for print and online editions and regularly appeared on national TV and radio. Among her lesser-known accomplishments: bringing slugs, yo-yos, the NYSE movie room and square dancing to the Journal’s front page.

A native of Eugene, Ore., Mary started working for her hometown paper, the Register-Guard as a teenager and reading comic books about journalists. Mary is an honors graduate of New York University and has worked at New York Magazine, USA Today and Gawker.com. She spent over a year abroad in Spain, Russia and China but now calls New York home.

Her work has been featured in The Best American Sportswriting and garnered awards from the New York Society of Professional Journalists, the Freedom Forum and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. She was part of the Journal’s team that won Gerald Loeb and New York Press Club Awards in 2011 for covering the “Flash Crash” of 2010 and made the Forbes magazine's first-ever 30 Under 30 list for media.

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