Madeleine Blais is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Her latest book is "Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble" (Atlantic Monthly Press).
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The two times I saw Bob Dylan
Madeleine Blais saw Bob Dylan perform twice, as a high school student in 1965, and again, nearly 10 years later, as a reporter, when she covered a stop on the...
Farewell to Jimmy Carter, and a more innocent time
Madeleine Blais was a staff writer for the Trenton Times in 1976 when she was assigned to cover the Democratic Convention in New York City where Jimmy Carter claimed his...
What would trailblazer Alice Marble think about today's US Open?
If Marble were to attend today’s U.S. Open, I can see her strolling through the grounds, insisting on a photo next to the statue of Althea Gibson, erected in 2019,...
My friend Kathy Willens wasn't the type for shortcuts
Pulitzer Prize winner Madeleine Blais remembers her friend Kathy Willens, a pathbreaking Associated Press photojournalist for nearly 45 years, who died in July at 74 from ovarian cancer.
My time with Joan Didion
As a young reporter in Miami, Madeleine Blais was a tour guide, of sorts, to Joan Didion. The author was so much lighter in person than she was on the...
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My College Rejection Story: Or, I'm So Brilliant — Just Ask Me
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