When people try to debate me online, I just suggest they read a book I make up that doesn’t exist.
But here’s a real, new book: The Divine Miss Marble. I grew with up the author, Rob Weintraub, who remains one of my closest friends. He’s incredibly talented, with an engaging writing style, and this is his fourth book. He spent the past year researching across the country, including St. Louis, LA and up the coast in California.
Alice Marble was a tennis star in the 1930s with a very colorful personal life. Here are some back-cover details:
But here’s a real, new book: The Divine Miss Marble. I grew with up the author, Rob Weintraub, who remains one of my closest friends. He’s incredibly talented, with an engaging writing style, and this is his fourth book. He spent the past year researching across the country, including St. Louis, LA and up the coast in California.
Alice Marble was a tennis star in the 1930s with a very colorful personal life. Here are some back-cover details:
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 even existed? She was widely known for her patriotism during World War II. Had she really nearly given her life for her country as a spy, shot during a wild car chase fleeing foreign espionage agents?Read it now, because you know it’s going to be adapted into a kickass movie starring Charlize Theron, but you, YOU read it way before then. Pre-order here.