Content deleted Content added
Line 6:
==Life and career==
Blount was born in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]]. He attended Ponce de Leon Elementary School and graduated from Decatur High School in [[Decatur, Georgia]], where he was class president and editor of the school newspaper, ''The Scribbler''. He received the [[Grantland Rice]] Journalism Scholarship to study journalism at [[Vanderbilt University]] where he distinguished himself and was [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] and graduated ''magna cum laude''. He went on to [[Harvard University]] where he received his M.A degree.
Blount was a staff writer and associate editor with ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' magazine from 1968 to 1975, and has continued to contribute to the magazine thereafter.
In 2002, he narrated ''The Main Stream'', a [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] documentary about the [[Mississippi River]]. As of 2011 he is featured regularly as a panelist on the [[National Public Radio|NPR]] news/comedy quiz show, ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]''. He has also been a recurring guest on ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]''. In May 2010 he made a cameo appearance on [[HBO]]'s series ''[[Treme (TV series)|Treme]]'' about post-[[Hurricane Katrina|Katrina]] [[New Orleans]].<ref>[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/05/treme-cameos-by-new-york-chefs-southern-writers-and-tennessee-bacon.html Cameo appearance on HBO's ''Treme'']</ref>
| |||