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Timothy Gay

Timothy Gay is a Senior Strategist at LEVICK Communications and an author writing about a variety of topics from military to baseball history.

Mr. Gay's books on American cultural history include: Assignment to Hell, a book on five great U.S. WW II correspondents, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in history; Savage Will, a real-life WW II escape adventure being considered as a Hollywood movie project; a biography of baseball great Tris Speaker, which was a finalist for the baseball history community’s two most prestigious awards; and a history of interracial baseball before the big leagues integrated, which won the 2010 Sporting News-SABR Book of the Year.

Mr. Gay was featured on camera on PBS’s History Detectives and in documentaries that have aired on PBS and the BBC.

Prior to LEVICK, Mr. Gay was Senior Vice President at Grayling and its predecessor firms, where he developed his specialty in energy, environment issues and technology policy. Prior to that, he compiled fifteen years of experience, including at Powell Tate where he worked from the day that storied agency opened to the day it closed nine years later.

Mr. Gay also spent nearly a decade as a congressional press secretary, most recently for the late Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and earlier for Representative (now Senator) Tom Carper (D-DE), a senior Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee.

He received a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) from Georgetown University.

Articles by this Author

With U-boats sinking dozens of ships each month, Hemingway, Bogart, and other citizens tried to help patrol American waters.
In 1942, over a quarter of a million ordinary citizens volunteered to help defend our country as Nazi submarines terrorized the East Coast and Caribbean waters, sinking fuel tankers and cargo ships with near impunity.
Seventy-five years ago this June, the celebrated writer for The New Yorker was one of the first journalists to witness the carnage on Omaha Beach.