I Always Wanted to Be Somebody (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Althea Gibson
- First Published: 1958
- Time of Work: 1927–1958
- Setting: Silver, South Carolina; Harlem, New York City; Wilmington, Delaware; Tallahassee, Florida; and London, England
- Principal Characters: Althea Gibson, Daniel Gibson, Fred Johnson, “Sugar Ray” Robinson, Sydney Llewellyn, Karol Fageros, Angela Buxton
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Racism, Autobiography, Athletes, Sports, Tennis
- Locales: Harlem, NY, Wilmington, DE, London, England, South Carolina, Tallahassee, FL
Form and Content
In I Always Wanted to Be Somebody, Althea Gibson gives a personal and colorful account of her life from the very early years on a small farm in Silver, South Carolina, through her second consecutive victory in the women’s singles tournament at Wimbledon in 1958. Her family moved north to New York City’s Harlem when she was three. She had a lively if somewhat irregular childhood, playing hooky in the streets and film theaters of Harlem, and, as she tells it, spending only an occasional day in school. Introduced to tennis in the form of the street game...
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