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| Mildred Didrikson Zaharias Mildred Didrikson Zaharias, known as "Babe," played her way into national fame in 1932, when she entered the U.S. women's track and field championship as the sole member of her team. Despite competing in team events alone, she won five events and the overall championship. Her next stop: The 1932 Los Angeles Olympics where she took home three medals-one silver and two gold. She teed her way onto the golf scene in 1934, when she was the first woman to play in an all-male PGA Tour event. To this day, Babe holds the record for the longest winning streak in golf history (male or female), a feat she accomplished between 1946 and 1947. Have you heard of the Ladies Professional Golf Association? Well it was Babe, along with 12 other female golfers, who formed the pro tour in 1950. She wowed the crowd a final time in 1954, when she won the U.S. Women's Open by a record margin of 12 strokes, just a year after being diagnosed with colon cancer. In honor of Women's History Month-Check out these titles |
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| Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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| In Memoriam-Norton Juster Norton Juster was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1929. He spent three years in the Navy and then began working as an architect in New York City. He'd gotten a grant to write a book for kids about cities, but after a short burst of enthusiasm was left uninspired and dispirited. That project would eventually become The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster's first book, with illustrations from Jules Feiffer. Though Juster continued to write books throughout his life (his book The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics was adapted into a 1965 Oscar-winning animated short), his main focus was on architecture. In 1970, he opened his own firm and had a long career as a professor of design at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., until he retired from both in the '90s. Juster died Monday at his home in Northampton, Mass. He was 91 years old. Check out his books here. |
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| March's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books It's been March, since...well, since last March. Fortunately, this month is giving us a truly gorgeous assortment of books to read while we wait, including two incisive explorations of how AI is shaping humanity-one from a Nobel Prize winner! Courtesy of Literary Hub-Check them out here |
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| I have come to believe that books have souls-why else would I be so reluctant to throw one away?-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
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