Mary Pilon is a journalist and filmmaker focused primarily on the worlds of sports and business. She is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestsellers “The Monopolists,” and “The Longest Race” with Olympian Kara Goucher. She is also the co-host and co-author of the audio series “Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Brought Him Down.” Her work regularly appears in the New Yorker, Esquire, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Vice, New York, and The New York Times, among other publications.

She has worked as an Emmy-nominated producer with NBC at the Olympics and as a story editor on HBO’s documentary “BS High,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She is currently co-directing a documentary about pickleball for Peter Berg’s Film 45.

Pilon previously was a staff reporter with The Times on the sports desk and at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered various aspects of business and finance.

A native of Eugene, Ore., Mary started reporting for her hometown paper, the Register-Guard, as a teenager and was a wildly mediocre athlete.