Gerald Marzorati
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Gerald Marzorati writes about tennis for newyorker.com. He is also a contributing editor to the journal ''Racquet''. He is the author of ''Late to the Ball'' (Scribner 2016), a memoir about his learning to play tennis and becoming a competitive senior player. His book ''Seeing Serena'' will be published by Scribner in June 2020.


Personal

Marzorati was born in
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'' in 1994. He became the editor of the ''New York Times Magazine'' in 2003, and remained in that post until 2010. He joined the masthead of the ''
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'' in 2006, and remained an Assistant Managing Editor until 2011. He then moved to the publishing side of the newspaper, where he worked to get the ''Times'' into the conference business and other new initiatives. He retired at the end of 2015.


Books

He is also the author of ''A Painter of Darkness'' (1990), a book about
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, for which he received the
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/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 1991.


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