Drew Sharp became a journalist when he was 6 years old. That’s when he lay in the intensive-care unit at Children’s Hospital in Detroit while recovering from open-heart surgery. He watched Walter Cronkite on the CBS “Evening News” and fell in love with journalism.
Sharp’s father, Calvin, bought him a typewriter and made him a microphone out of a cardboard spool from a roll of paper towels and watched his son recuperate by writing stories for his evening report at the dinner table.
“Love is like a perfectly fluid golf swing. You don’t find it so much as it finds you, and you have to be ready to take advantage,” Sharp wrote in the introduction to his 2003 Detroit Free Press book, “Razor Sharp.