David Ritz is the only four-time winner of the Gleason Music Book Award. He has collaborated with Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Smokey Robinson, and Don Rickles. He also cowrote, with Gaye, the song "Sexual Healing."

Books by David Ritz

A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace

Ralph Branca with David Ritz - Baseball, History, Sports

Ralph Branca is best known for throwing the pitch that resulted in Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World.” A MOMENT IN TIME details the remarkable story of a man who could have been destroyed by a supreme professional embarrassment --- but wasn’t.

Howling at the Moon

Walter Yetnikoff with David Ritz - Memoir, Nonfiction