Frank Deford
Description
Editor of Sports Illustrated magazine and long-time commentator on National Public Radio. He wrote many sports-related books and a highly regarded memoir about his daughter, who died from cystic fibrosis.
Books
An American summer
In 1954, fourteen-year-old Christy Bannister becomes friends with twenty-three-year-old Kathryn Slade, a polio victim who lives in an iron lung.
The Best Of Frank Deford
"The Best of Frank Deford: I'm Just Getting Started relates not only the specific and spectacular events that make up great sportswriting, but reflect through sports the larger world of American culture. The Best of Frank Deford features in-depth personal profiles of such legendary figures as Bobby Knight, Bill Russell, and Charles Barkley, and provides wry insight into the rapidly changing sports world."--BOOK JACKET.
Love and infamy
Love and Infamy is a sweeping novel of history and destiny - and a love story of unforgettable proportions - about two men who know the secret of Pearl Harbor, only one of whom has the will to stop it.... Tokyo, Honolulu. The approach of conflict in the Pacific. Two men - one American, one Japanese - raised as blood brothers, are faced with the crisis of their lives on the eve of World War II. Cotton Drake has left the States to follow in the footsteps of his missionary parents back in Japan. Kiyoshi Serikawa, a Japanese who at times seems more American than the Americans, stays behind in Hawaii, and is recruited by his nation to help plan "Operation Z" - the secret attack on Pearl Harbor. Soon history will force each man to choose between America and Japan - and each other. For when Cotton returns to Tokyo, he realizes there is a clandestine campaign in the making, and suspects that Kiyoshi knows more about it than he admits. And as Cotton grows surer of his best friend's treachery, he falls more deeply in love with the beautiful Miyuki. The daughter of a Japanese war hero and Kiyoshi's dutiful wife, she, too, will have to choose between passion and duty, love and country. Full of wartime intrigue, Love and Infamy vividly conveys the spirit of antebellum Japan. Combining the heart-stopping romance of James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific and the epic scope of James Jones's From Here to Eternity, Love and Infamy is the kind of rich, involving novel that fans of popular fiction and popular history will find irresistible.
Everybody's all-American
"Gavin Grey is a star running back at the University of North Carolina in the 1950s. He graces the covers of Time and Life and grows accustomed to hearing adoring fans shout out his nickname - The Grey Ghost - as he walks by." "Gaving goes on to a solid career in the NFL. But when his playing days are over, he finds the adjustment to "normal" family life difficult. His wife, Babs, becomes the primary breadwinner, while Gavin continues to trade on the memories of his glory days as everybody's All-American."--BOOK JACKET.
There she is
"Walking a magic tightrope that never topples him into either derision or credulousness, Frank Deford traces the Miss America contest from its beginnings a half-century ago to the present-from Margaret Gorman in 1921, just turned sixteen and measuring 30-25-32, to Phyllis George, Miss America 1971, 36-24-36." -- dust jacket.
Other Adonis
If true love can travel across time, can true evil be far behind?When the beautiful Dr. Nina Winston's patient Bucky Buckingham reveals his secret to her, she has to doubt him. Reincarnation? True love across four centuries? But Nina is fascinated and lets herself be drawn into the charming and vulnerable Bucky's tale and into his life. Through hypnotherapy, she meets his former identity, and in real life, she meets his former paramour. If Bucky did live before, is Constance Rawlings his reincarnated lover? A dangerous search begins for the truth behind predestined love, and Nina is caught in the middle of soaring passions and raging jealousies.Peter Paul Rubens's painting, Venus and Adonis, which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the inspiration for this fast-paced thriller set alternately between the seventeenth century in Antwerp and the present day in New York. A novel of intrigue and suspense, The Other Adonis is a tale of true love and murder, a mystery that takes the reader back in time to another world, with a resolution that will delight romantics and turn skeptics into believers.