Terry Frei is a Denver-based journalist, author, and screenwriter.
Raised in Eugene, Oregon, where his father was a fixture on the University
of Oregon football staff and the Ducks' head coach for five seasons, Frei moved to Colorado at age 17 and graduated from Wheat
Ridge High School in the Denver area. He is proud to claim the unmatched distinction of being both an Axeman (South Eugene) and
a Farmer (Wheat Ridge). He has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Frei is the author of one novel, The Witch's Season
(2009), plus four non-fiction books -- Playing Piano in a Brothel (2010), '77: Denver, the Broncos,
and a Coming of Age (2008), Third Down and a War to Go (2007), and Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming (2002).
His next book, a novel
from Taylor Trade, is scheduled for a December 2012 release.
His screenplay work has included his adaptations of Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming;
Third Down and a War to Go and The Witch's Season, and he also has been a consultant and
done other work in the movie industry.
He also is collaborating
with Patrick Ireland on Ireland's memoirs, tentatively titled Columbine's Boy in the Window.
Frei is a
frequent event speaker, including at sports- and veterans-oriented functions. He has delivered the John Paul Hammerschmidt
Lecture in honor of the World War II pilot and longtime Congressman; spoken at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, the
Wisconsin State Historical Society, and even at Lambeau Field; and was a keynote speaker at the World War II
Glider Conference in 2010, when he appeared with many surviving heroes, including Lt. Col. Jim Megellas, the most-decorated
officer in the history of the 82nd Airborne.
Terry and
his wife, Helen, live in Denver.
Terry has four
siblings: David Frei of New York, the Westminster Kennel Club's director of communications
and long-time WKC Dog Show television broadcaster; Judy Kaplan of Beaverton, Oregon, a Spanish and English-as-a-second-language
teacher and community volunteer; Susan Frei Earley of Tulsa, a noted former ballerina with the Colorado Ballet and other companies,
and now a company executive with the renowned Tulsa Ballet, which performs around the world; and Nancy McCormick of the Chicago law firm Barlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar
and Scott.
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