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Jeannie Morris Jeannie Morris is a prominent Chicago journalist whose career spanned more than three decades. Her bestselling book "Brian Piccolo: A Short Season" is best remembered for the 1971 film that followed, "Brian's Song." She earned 11 Emmys and numerous Illinois AP and UPI awards, as well as a National Black Journalists Award for her program "Air Jordan." In 2014, she became the first woman to receive the Ring Lardner Award.