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100 1 _aBlais, Madeleine,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aQueen of the court :
_bthe many lives of tennis legend Alice Marble /
_cMadeleine Blais.
250 _aFirst Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bAtlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic,
_c2023.
264 4 _c©2023
300 _axii, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPart one: 1913-1931 -- The little white house on the hill -- "Atta boy, Alice" -- Where it is always June -- High hat -- Three crisp twenty-dollar bills -- "Teach" -- Precarious ; Part two: 1932-1934 -- Cannonball -- A little hideaway -- Heat wave -- Hello, Venus -- "You don't know me, but . . ." ; Part three: 1935-1939 -- Starry nights -- And then . . . she kissed it -- The heart of their universe -- Debut tonight! -- July 8, 1939 -- Swing high, swing low ; Part four: 1940-1945 -- $100,000 on the table -- Sixty-one stops -- Wonder woman ; Part five: 1946-1966 -- A good address -- A vital issue -- This is your life -- The homestretch ; Part six: 1966-1990 -- Once a champion -- Queen Alice -- Taking a chance on love -- Lullaby at night -- Iron lady -- Game, set, match . . . and questions.
520 _a"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 legendary Alfred 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 the top 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 Tracy and 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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aMarble, Alice,
_d1913-1990.
650 0 _aTennis players
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aWomen tennis players
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
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