Keith Manos is the author of 11 nonfiction books, including Writing Smarter (Prentice Hall, 1998), 101 Proven Ways to Motivate Athletes (Coaches Choice, 2021), and The Elite Wrestler (Coaches Choice, 2020). In 2015, Black Rose Writing published his debut novel My Last Year of Life (in School). His second novel Missing will be published by Breaking Rules Publishing in 2021. In 2021, Keith was honored as the national wrestling Sportswriter of the Year by Wrestling USA Magazine. He is also a 2009 Inductee into the Ohio Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame and a veteran English teacher who in 2000 was named Ohio’s High School English Teacher of the Year and inducted into the National Honor Roll of Outstanding American Teachers in 2006.