About

Kevin Nelson is an award-winning author and journalist.

This fall his latest book, Lunches With Mr. Q: An Auto Industry Titan on Business, Life and Sports Car Dreams, will be published in hardcover. Beautifully illustrated with seventy-five color and black and white photographs, Lunches With Mr. Q revolves around Nelson's conversations with Kjell Qvale, the 92-year-old Norwegian-born multimillionaire automotive entrepreneur and pioneer. Look for more about this book in the months to come.

Here are a few more of Nelson's books:

Wheels of Change: From Zero to 600 M.P.H., The Amazing Story of California and the Automobile. Winner of the prestigious Valentine Award for "excellence in automotive history," presented by the Society of Automotive Historians. Wheels of Change was also a finalist for the 2010 Best Book of the Year prize, awarded annually by the Los Angeles Motor Press Guild.

Operation Bullpen: The Inside Story of the Biggest Forgery Scam in American History. Nelson's true crime expose of a $100 million nationwide forgery ring that was busted by the FBI has been optioned by Hollywood and is now under development to be a movie. It has received wide acclaim from ESPN, New York Daily News, and many other media, and has been the subject of a truTV crime documentary. The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is planning a museum exhibit on the Operation Bullpen case based on the book.

The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball. Named one of the ten best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, and many others. It was a national finalist for the Seymour Prize, awarded annually to the best baseball book of the year, and the subject of a public television documentary that aired on stations around the country.

The Everything Father-to-Be Book. Nelson, who is the father of four and believes strongly in the importance of fathers being involved in the lives of their children, has written three books on parenting, including the just-released second edition of his classic survival guide for expectant fathers.

The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration. A popular motivational book for runners, it is in its tenth printing and has been translated into Dutch.

Nelson's writing has appeared in a wide range of magazines, newspapers, and online, including the San Francisco Chronicle, California Historical Quarterly, San Francisco Magazine, San Jose Mercury News, and more. His work has been serialized nationally by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and reprinted internationally. 

He has served as a story consultant for Pixar Studios. An expert in books, publishing, and a wide range of communications and media issues, Nelson also provides strategic writing and communications services for companies and organizations such as Discovery Toys, Kaiser Permanente, O'Donnell Financial Group, Remember Us, and many others.

He lives with his wife and children in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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