We are proud to welcome esteemed biographer Frank Brady to the library on March 19 to discuss and sign copies of his new book ENDGAME.
In 1972, the world was enthralled with a not-yet-thirty-year-old chess prodigy born to a homeless mother. Featured on the covers of magazines such as Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated, Bobby Fischer was acknowledged to be the most famous man on Earth. How then did he end his life a notorious- and perhaps insane- recluse living in Iceland? ENDGAME: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall- from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by acclaimed biographer Frank Brady traces the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of an enigmatic genius.
Only Brady could have written ENDGAME. The two met when Fischer was a child, and their lives intertwined both personally and professionally over the years. They played hundreds of games together, dined together, and walked the street of Manhattan for hours on end. Brady also draws from Fischer’s family archives, recently released FBI files, and Bobby’s own e-mails to tell the full story of Bobby’s life. ENDGAME was published by Crown Publishing on February 1. Frank Brady will be at the library to talk about his book on Saturday March 19 at 1 pm. A book sale and signing, sponsored by the Friends of the Mineola Library, will follow.
