Queen of the court : the many lives of tennis legend Alice Marble
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2023].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780802128324, 0802128327
Physical Desc
xii, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Barrington - New Books (Main Floor) | B MARBLE | On Shelf |
Burrillville (Jesse Smith) - Adult Non-Fiction | Bio MARBLE Alice | On Shelf |
Coventry - Adult Non-Fiction | 796.342 BLA | On Shelf |
Newport - Neighborhoods | BIO Marble | On Shelf |
Warwick Public - Adult Non-Fiction | BIO GV 994 M3 B53 2023 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2023].
Edition
First edition.
Street Date
2308
Language
English
ISBN
9780802128324, 0802128327
Notes
General Note
2023/08/15
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais, the dramatic and colorful story of legendary tennis star and international celebrity, Alice Marble. In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by the legendaryAlfred Eisenstaedt. She was a worldwide celebrity, having that year won singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles tennis titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open, then an unprecedented feat. Yet today one of America's greatest female athletes and most charismatic characters is largely forgotten. Queen of the Court places her back on center stage. Born in 1913, Marble grew up in San Francisco; her favorite sport, baseball. Given a tennis racket at age 13, she took to the sport immediately, rising to thetop with a powerful, aggressive serve-and-volley style unseen in women's tennis. A champion at the height of her fame in the late 1930s, she also designed a clothing line in the off-season and sang as a performer in the Sert Room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to rave reviews. World War II derailed her tennis career, but her life off the court was, if anything, even more eventful. She wrote a series of short books about famous women. Ever glamorous and connected, she had a part in the 1952 Tracyand Hepburn movie Pat and Mike, and she played tennis with the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, and her great friends, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. However, perhaps her greatest legacy lies in her successful efforts, working largely alone,to persuade the all-white US Lawn Tennis Association to change its policy and allow African American star Althea Gibson to compete for the US championship in 1950, thereby breaking tennis's color barrier. In two memoirs, Marble also showed herself to be an at-times unreliable narrator of her own life, which Madeleine Blais navigates brilliantly, especially Marble's dramatic claims of having been a spy during World War II. In Queen of the Court, the author of the bestselling In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle recaptures a glittering life story"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Blais, M. (2023). Queen of the court: the many lives of tennis legend Alice Marble (First edition.). Atlantic Monthly Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Blais, Madeleine. 2023. Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble. Atlantic Monthly Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Blais, Madeleine. Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Blais, Madeleine. Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble First edition., Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023.
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