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Open

Disciplines:
memoir
athens/tennis
sport
autobiography

Summary

Andre Agassi's 2009 autobiography (written with J.R. Moehringer) — revealing his hatred of tennis, crystal meth use, lying to drug testers, and eventual transformation — considered the most honest autobiography by a major athlete.

Core Contribution

Creates the honest athlete memoir — Open's candor about performance-enhancing drugs, dislike of the sport, and personal failures set a new standard for athlete autobiography that most sports memoirs aspire to but few achieve.

Historical Influences

J.R. Moehringer's memoir writing style

Intellectual Lineage

Andre Agassi J.R. MoehringerKnopf

Allied Works

The Tender BarMy Own Story

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Sports memoir genre

Intellectual Posterity

Open Athlete memoir honesty standard

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