It changes you, for the better." BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES: BOOKS I might have learned them in some other way, or just with age-but fighting in particular teaches you a lot about yourself.
I understand those things much more completely. He romanticizes fighting without turning a blind eye to the troubling moral underpinnings of inflicting harm on someone else."Īsked to describe the knowledge he gained from his experiences, Sheridan told an interviewer in Memoirville, "I guess I know a lot more about myself, and about the nature of striving, pain, aggression, dominance and endurance.
According to Wertheim, the author "is brutally self-effacing without sounding falsely modest. "The account of his travels gradually reveals itself as a kind of spiritual quest," noted Boston Globe critic James Sullivan, "albeit one that came at the expense of a rearranged nose and a chronic rib cage injury." In A Fighter's Heart, Sheridan "provides some interesting insights into the various fighting disciplines, introducing a score of colorful fighters, trainers and hangers-on," wrote a contributor to Kirkus Reviews. Sheridan also logged time with Ultimate Fighter Championship competitors in Iowa, jiu-jitsu champions in Rio de Janeiro, and Olympic medalist boxer Andre Ward in California. Sheridan, a boxing enthusiast, eventually landed in Bangkok, Thailand, where he trained as a Muay Thai fighter at the celebrated Fairtex gym.
A former Merchant Marine with a taste for adventure, Sheridan began traveling the world in 1998, crewing private yachts in the Bahamas, fighting fires in New Mexico, and constructing a South Pole station in Antarctica. Sam Sheridan is the author of A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey through the World of Fighting, "by turns a self-discovery journal, blood-stained travelogue and series of thoughtful if at times disjointed essays on age-old themes: violence, combat, pain, masculinity," observed Sports Illustrated contributor L. WRITINGS:Ī Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey through the World of Fighting, Atlantic Monthly Press ( New York, NY), 2007.Ĭontributor to periodicals, including Men's Journal and Newsweek. Has crewed private yachts in the Bahamas and Australia, worked construction in Antarctica, ranched in MT, and fought fires in NM. Education: Graduated from Harvard University, 1998. Born 1975 son of teachers partner of Patty Jenkins (a filmmaker).
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