Johnette Howard

Johnette Howard is a best-selling author who previously worked as a national columnist and on-air commentator for ESPN, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated general sports columnist for Newsday, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and The National Sports Daily, and an enterprise writer/ columnist for The Washington Post. Howard began her career at the Detroit Free Press as an NBA and Olympics writer. Her work has been collected in nine anthologies, most notably The Best American Sports Writing of The Century, which was published in 2000 and edited by David Halberstam.

Howard is the author of two books. She collaborated with Billie Jean King on King's autobiography, "All in", which was released by Knopf in August 2021 and debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times Best-Seller List. Booklist and Publisher's Weekly gave "All In" starred reviews, and Kirkus called it, "A memoir bristling with energy and passion." New York Times reviewer Caitlin Thompson wrote, "King’s instincts to shape seismic events in culture have set the table for (and in some cases, created) conversations about race, gender identity, sexuality and equity that are especially resonant now, and it’s hard not to read this book as a call to arms...'All In' reads as a manifesto, like “Letters to a Young Poet” with a heavy dash of bell hooks....Her book is a powerful rallying cry, in a life full of them."

Howard also wrote "The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova, Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship" (Broadway Books). The Rivals was as an Editor's Choice of The New York Times Review of Books, and The Times of London termed it, "Beautifully constructed...Vivid and enthralling." A Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote, "Splendidly written...Reads like a short cultural history of the 1970s and 1980s."