Question: When was the author of the novel that Everybody's All-American was based on born?

full_context: Document 1: The Express: The Express (also known as The Express: The Ernie Davis Story) is a 2008 American sports film produced by John Davis and directed by Gary Fleder. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Charles Leavitt from a book titled "Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express", authored by Robert C. Gallagher. The film is based on the life of Syracuse University football player Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy, portrayed by actor Rob Brown. "The Express" explores civil topics, such as racism, discrimination and athletics.
Document 2: Frank Isola (sportswriter): Frank Isola is an American sportswriter, who has been covering the New York Knicks and the National Basketball Association for the New York Daily News since 1996. He also regularly appears on the ESPN show "Around the Horn" and SportsNet New York (SNY). He is currently the lead host of "The Starting Lineup", which airs weekdays from 7-10am ET on SiriusXM NBA Radio. Frank received an APSE sports writing award in 1998, and was voted New York Sportswriter of the Year in 2015. New York Emmy Award in 2009-10.
Document 3: Chip Franklin: Chip Franklin is a nationally known talk show host, writer, producer, comedian and musician. For the last 20+ years, he's been a talk show host, and is currently on KGO in San Francisco, California. He is also former host of a talk show on KOGO in San Diego, California and WBAL AM 1090 in Baltimore, Maryland and at WMAL in Washington DC. The Washington Post's Marc Fisher says "Franklin adds a rare dose of irony to a medium that rarely trusts its audience to get the joke.” In San Diego and Baltimore, Washington DC, Franklin is also known as a comedian and frequents clubs in the markets.
Document 4: Taylor Hackford: Taylor Edwin Hackford (born December 31, 1944) is an American film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for "Teenage Father" (1979). Hackford went on to direct a number of highly regarded feature films, most notably "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982) and "Ray" (2004), the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture.
Document 5: Frank Graham (writer): Frank Graham, Sr. (November 12, 1893 – March 9, 1965) was an American sportswriter and biographer. He covered sports in New York for the "New York Sun" from 1915 to 1943 and for the "New York Journal-American" from 1945 to 1965. He was also a successful author, writing biographies of politician Al Smith and athletes Lou Gehrig and John McGraw, as well as histories of the New York Yankees, New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. Graham's writing style was notable for his use of lengthy passages of "unrelieved dialogue" in developing portraits of the persons about whom he wrote. Graham was posthumously inducted into the "writers wing" of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1972. He was also posthumously honored in 1997 by the Boxing Writers Association of America with its highest honor, the A.J. Liebling Award.
Document 6: Richard Ford: Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel "The Sportswriter" and its sequels, "Independence Day", "The Lay of the Land" and "Let Me Be Frank With You", and the short story collection "Rock Springs", which contains several widely anthologized stories.
Document 7: Frank Gifford: Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford (August 16, 1930 – August 9, 2015) was an American football player and television sports commentator. After a 12-year playing career as a halfback and flanker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL), he was a play-by-play announcer and commentator for 27 years on ABC's "Monday Night Football".
Document 8: Dick Enberg: Richard Alan Enberg (born January 9, 1935) is a retired American sportscaster. He provided play-by-play for various sports on numerous radio and television networks (including NBC, CBS, and ESPN), and for individual teams, over the course of an approximately 60-year career.
Document 9: Everybody's All-American: Everybody's All-American is a 1981 novel by longtime "Sports Illustrated" contributor Frank Deford and later made into a motion picture directed by Taylor Hackford.
Document 10: A League of Their Own: A League of Their Own is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Directed by Penny Marshall, the film stars Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Lori Petty. The screenplay was written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel from a story by Kelly Candaele and Kim Wilson.
Document 11: Radio (2003 film): Radio is a 2003 American semi-biographical sports drama film directed by Mike Tollin, and inspired by the 1996 "Sports Illustrated" article "Someone to Lean On" by Gary Smith. The article and the movie are based on the true story of T. L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones (Ed Harris) and a mentally challenged young man, James Robert "Radio" Kennedy (Cuba Gooding Jr.). The film co-stars Debra Winger and Alfre Woodard. It was filmed primarily in Walterboro, South Carolina because its buildings and downtown core still fit the look of the era the film was trying to depict.
Document 12: Frank Deford: Benjamin Franklin Deford III (December 16, 1938 – May 28, 2017) was an American sportswriter and novelist. Over the course of four decades, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR's "Morning Edition" radio program (from 1980 to 2017).
Document 13: My All American: My All American is a 2015 American biographical drama sport film based on the life of college football player Freddie Steinmark. The film was written and directed by Angelo Pizzo. It is based on the book "Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story" by Jim Dent. The film stars Finn Wittrock, Sarah Bolger, Robin Tunney and Aaron Eckhart. The film was released on November 13, 2015, by Clarius Entertainment. The film coincides with the 2015 biography ""., It received negative reviews and grossed $2.2 million on a $20 million budget.
Document 14: Allan Graf: Allan Graf (born c. 1949), also known as Allan L. Graf, is an American athlete, film actor, stuntman and director with more than 35 years' experience in the film making industry. A high school All-American football player at San Fernando in Los Angeles, California, Graf played offensive guard for the undefeated national champion University of Southern California Trojans in 1972. After a brief experience playing professional football, Graf stumbled into stunt work, and over time has become a respected stunt coordinator in Hollywood, coordinating stunts in football movies like "Any Given Sunday" and "Friday Night Lights". Graf likes to cast himself in onscreen stunt roles, and has appeared in many television shows and movies. Recently Graf has become known as a second unit director, initially running second unit for comedies like "Wayne's World", "The Replacements" and "The Waterboy", then moving on to award-winning projects like "We Were Soldiers" and "Jerry Maguire".
Document 15: Everybody's All-American (film): Everybody's All-American is a 1988 American sports drama film, released internationally as When I Fall In Love, directed by Taylor Hackford and based on the novel "Everybody's All-American" by longtime "Sports Illustrated" contributor Frank Deford.
ground_truth: December 16, 1938