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Friday Night Lights: Buzz Bissinger

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Harry Gerard Bissinger wrote a non-fictional book entitled Friday Night Lights. Bissinger created this non-fiction book in 1990. “Bissinger , also known as Buzz Bissinger, is an American Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and author, best known for his non-fiction book Friday Night Lights” (Wikipedia, 2017). Bissinger was inspired to write Friday Nights Lights while he was attending Harvard College. He wanted to write a book based on a small town high school football program. The hard part was finding the perfect small town to do so, but he eventually found Odessa, Texas, where he found the football team, Permian High School, he wanted to write about (Wikipedia, 2017). Friday Night Lights was about a small town football program that brought a
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