Publisher’s Weekly: Movingly Told

“Journalist Jacobs (The Other Barack) offers an affecting biography of Althea Gibson (1927–2003), the ‘first Black woman to be the number-one tennis player in the world.’ … Thoroughly researched and movingly told, this warts-and-all portrayal of Gibson’s life is a winner.”

— Publisher's Weekly

“Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson, Publisher’s Weekly, May 15, 2023.

Kirkus: Comprehensive and elegantly written

“A comprehensive and elegantly written life of Althea Gibson, one of the greatest athletes America has produced… An essential book about an incomparably authentic American pioneer and the times in which she lived.”

— Kirkus (starred review)

“ALTHEA,” Kirkus Reviews (starred review), April 3, 2023.