Filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia and tennis legend Billie Jean King join the L.A. Times Book Club this summer to discuss their books.
grew up in Long Beach
, the daughter of a firefighter dad and a homemaker mom who sold Avon and Tupperware to help the family get by. She came of age in the Cold War era, before her high school had a girls’ tennis team. So she learned to play tennis in public parks, and in her teen years competed across Southern California, including at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. “The boys got everything and the girls got crumbs,” she recalls.
In her new book, “All In,” King recounts her career and lifelong journey to find herself. She takes readers inside a groundbreaking career: Six years as the world’s No. 1 women’s tennis player. Twenty Wimbledon championships. Beatingon live TV in the 1973 “Battle of the Sexes.” And then the fleeing corporate sponsors when King was outed as gay in 1981.
“Early on, what was most apparent to me is that the world I wanted didn’t exist yet,” she writes. “It would be up to my generation to create it.”Pacific time on. A limited number of autographed copies of “All In” with a Los Angeles Times Book Club tote will be available for book club readers. Get tickets on
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