Bill Geist

Bill Geist has been a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning since he joined CBS News in August 1987. His work for the broadcast has been honored with two Emmy Awards, the most recent in 2005 for a profile of Fred Carl, who started the Viking Range company in Greenwood, Miss., and completely revitalized this small, impoverished town. Geist also won an Emmy for his report on the 66th anniversary of America's famed Route 66. He has added his humor and insight to various CBS News broadcasts, as well as to CBS Sports productions, including the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Olympic Winter Games, the World Series, Super Bowls and NCAA basketball tournaments. Geist is the best-selling author of six books: "Fore! Play;" "The Big Five Oh: Facing, Fearing and Fighting 50;" "Monster Trucks and Hair In A Can Who Says America Doesn't Make Anything Anymore?;" The New York Times bestseller "Little League Confidential," an account of his experience as a coach of his son and daughter's Little League baseball teams; "City Slickers;" and "The Zucchini Plague and Other Tales of Suburbia." He has contributed articles to The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Forbes and numerous other publications. Prior to joining CBS News, Geist was a columnist for The New York Times (1980-87). His "About New York" column for the paper appeared twice a week. Before that, he worked for The Chicago Tribune, where he was a reporter and columnist (1972-80). Geist served as a combat photographer with the First Infantry Division in Vietnam (1969). Geist has won numerous awards for his work as a humorist, commentator and reporter in television, newspapers and magazines, but seems most proud of taking third in the Illinois State Fair Bake Off. Geist was born May 10, 1945, in Champaign, Ill. He was graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana in 1968 with a degree in communications and from the University of Missouri in 1971 with a Master's degree in communications. Geist lives in New York City with his wife, Jody. They have two children.