John Feinstein, Sportswriter and Author of ‘A Season on the Brink,’ Dies at 69

John Feinstein, an indefatigable sportswriter for The Washington Post and the author of more than 40 books, including the best sellers “A Season on the Brink” (1986) and “A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour” (1995), died on Thursday at his brother’s home in McLean, Va. He was 69.

His brother, Robert, said the cause was probably a heart attack.

Mr. Feinstein’s last column, about Michigan State men’s basketball coach, Tom Izzo, appeared in The Post on Thursday.

Mr. Feinstein became one of America’s best-known sportswriters after “A Season on the Brink,” which focused on the 1985-86 Indiana University basketball team led by the mercurial coach Bobby Knight, became a best seller. The book gave readers the kind of journalistic access to Mr. Knight, a brilliant tactician but a complicated personality, that sports books usually did not offer.

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