AWSM Member Publishes First Book

AWSM member and Newsday sports columnist Johnette Howard's first book, The Rivals: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship, will be released by Broadway Books on June 7th and is availabe now on Amazon.com. In addition to providing an intimate and entertaining look at both legendary champions as people, the book also places them in history, showing how they came of age during the rambunctious golden age of tennis in the 1970s, and redefined women's athletics during a time of seismic change in sports and society.

Mary Carillo of CBS Sports writes: “For all our seeming familiarity with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, Johnette Howard takes us deep inside the greatest rivalry in tennis history to reveal how it took the two champions the length of their 16-year tennis war to truly know and love each other and themselves. With diligence and skill Howard chronicles their magnificent battles on the court, their turbulent times off the court, and the civil wars they w aged within their own fragile psyches. It makes the journeys taken and the destinations reached all the more remarkable.