Glenn Stout is a writer, author, and editor, and served as series editor of The Best American Sports Writing, and founding editor of The Year’s Best Sports Writing. He is also the author of Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, Fenway 1912, Nine Months at Ground Zero, and many other award-winning and best-selling books. He also served as a consultant on the Disney+ film adaptation of Young Woman and the Sea. Stout lives in Lake Champlain in Vermont.
“Great storytelling. . .Stout’s moving book recovers the
exhilarating story of a young girl who found her true self out in
the water and paved the way for women in sports today." —
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Young Woman and the Sea is the story of Gertrude Ederle’s epic
swim across the English Channel interwoven with a sweeping and
glimmering history of swimming. These were the good old days
when open water swimmers were sex symbols, pioneers of the sport,
and leaders of social change. For anyone who loves the water,
or has a big dream—this is the book to read!" — Lynne Cox, author
of Swimming to Antarctica and Grayson
"Too often, looking at America through its sports, and vice versa,
results in a distorted view of both of them. In Glenn Stout's
account of Trudy Ederle and the English Channel, we have a clear
and honest mirror. Young Woman and the Sea is a first-rate piece of
social history, and a tale told, well, swimmingly." — Charles
P. Pierce, author of Idiot America and Moving the Chains
“Glenn Stout brings the women’s sports pioneer back to life with an
engaging, deeply researched account.”
— Sports Illustrated
"A great summer read." — New Yorker
“Stout adeptly traces the history of swimming and Ederle’s
significance in it. Whether recounting the origins of modern
strokes or the geological formation of the English Channel, the
author is comprehensive in his research. His blow-by-blow accounts
of Ederle’s two attempts to cross from Cape Gris-Nez, France to
Dover, England, demonstrate his engaging style… saturated with
thrills and melodrama. A compelling account of a woman who,
though long forgotten, changed the way the world viewed swimming.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“Great storytelling. . .Stout’s moving book recovers the
exhilarating story of a young girl who found her true self out in
the water and paved the way for women in sports today." —
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Stout adeptly traces the history of swimming and Ederle’s
significance in it. Whether recounting the origins of modern
strokes or the geological formation of the English Channel, the
author is comprehensive in his research. His blow-by-blow accounts
of Ederle’s two attempts to cross from Cape Gris-Nez, France to
Dover, England, demonstrate his engaging style… saturated with
thrills and melodrama. A compelling account of a woman who,
though long forgotten, changed the way the world viewed swimming.”
— Kirkus Reviews
"Young Woman and the Sea is the story of Gertrude Ederle’s epic
swim across the English Channel interwoven with a sweeping and
glimmering history of swimming. These were the good old days
when open water swimmers were sex symbols, pioneers of the sport,
and leaders of social change. For anyone who loves the water,
or has a big dream—this is the book to read!" — Lynne Cox, author
of Swimming to Antarctica and Grayson
"A great summer read." — New Yorker
"Too often, looking at America through its sports, and vice versa,
results in a distorted view of both of them. In Glenn Stout's
account of Trudy Ederle and the English Channel, we have a clear
and honest mirror. Young Woman and the Sea is a first-rate piece of
social history, and a tale told, well, swimmingly." — Charles
P. Pierce, author of Idiot America and Moving the Chains
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