Darcy Frey is an American writer and educator from New York. His 1994 book The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams won awards and inspired a movie. Frey has published articles in New England Monthly, Rolling Stone, Harper's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was a contributing editor at Harper's and The New York Times Magazine. Frey won the National Magazine Award and the Livingston Award for "The Last Shot", a 1993 article published in Harper's that Frey developed into his first book. The article was included in The Best American Essays 1994.