Pulitzer Prize winner H.G. Bissinger was fascinated by the idea of high school sports keeping a community together. So, he ...

A road trip doesn’t only reveal the horizon; it also has a way of unfurling the heart. For author Buzz Bissinger and his son Zach, it took a drive of about 3,500 miles over 12 days in 2007 to ...

Author H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger took a critical look at the social problems in a football-obsessed town, and he delved into racial divisions and racism. It inspired a movie and a hit TV series by ...

“Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream,” the 1990 non-fiction bestseller by H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger about a prominent west Texas high school football team and societal issues in ...

"This must not be planet earth. This must be hell." H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger may have included those words early in the pages of Friday Night Lights, his iconic work about Texas high school football ...

A 1990 non-fiction book written by H.G. Bissinger about high-school football in West Texas, Friday Night Lights inspired several other works in the years following its publishing — including a ...

Thornton’s monologue comes during the championship game in Friday Night Lights, Peter Berg’s 2004 sports drama based on H.G. Bissinger’s 1990 book, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team ...