Ray Arsenault Articles

Ashe Book to S&S

Free Press’s Martin Beiser won, at auction, world rights to Ray Arsenault’s Arthur Ashe biography. Arsenault (Freedom Riders), who teaches Southern history at the University of South Florida, will discuss the tennis great’s life as well as his contributions to civil, and overall human, rights. The S&S imprint is planning a 2012 publication, timed to that year’s U.S. Open. Agent Wendy Strothman did the deal.

Peter Ginna at Bloomsbury Press bought world rights for The Sound of Freedom by historian Ray Arsenault  (Freedom Riders), about internationally acclaimed contralto Marion Anderson's 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, given after she had been denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall because of her race.  Sold by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency for publication in 2008.