Robert Weintraub The Divine Miss Marble: A Life of Tennis, Fame, & Mystery

In Robert Weintraubs exhaustive biography, The Divine Miss Marble, he transports the reader into Marbles vibrant world. Its a dreamy, indomitable life worth reading about as todays tennis tries to return to form. The Washington PostAn intriguing book about a fascinating woman . . . Highly recommended. Library Journal(starred review)Delightful and engrossing, this is a must for tennis fans. Publishers WeeklyThe story of 1930s tennis icon Alice Marble, and her life of sports, celebrity, and incredible mystery Who was Alice Marble? In her public life, she was the biggest tennis star of the prewar era, a household name like Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. She was famous for overcoming serious illness to win the biggest tournaments, including Wimbledon. She was also a fashion designer and trendsetter, a contributor to a pioneering new comic called Wonder Womanand friend to the biggest names in Hollywood and society, like Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies, and members of families named Bloomingdale, Loew, and du Pont. She helped integrate tennis with her support of Althea Gibson, and even coached two young women who became stars in their own right Billie Jean King and Sally Ride. Yet her private life provoked constant speculation while she was alive, and her own memoirs added layers of legend upon stories. According to Alice, she married a man who was killed in the skies over Europe during World War II. But who was the man she loved, and had he... | Robert Weintraub The Divine Miss Marble: A Life of Tennis, Fame, & Mystery