Kaia Alderson

Sep 21, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Kaia Alderson

Effa Manley has the unique honor of being the only woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. She is known for her role as a baseball executive who co-owned the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League alongside her husband, Abe Manley. And, to be sure, that is a main portion of Kaia Alderson’s new historical novel. But as she writes in her author’s notes, “Mrs.

Jul 23, 2024 | booktrib.com | Kaia Alderson |Nancy Johnson |Denny S. Bryce

In the summer of 2019, I met with my then-editor at Kensington Books, and she mentioned Alice Beatrice Jones and Leonard  ‘Kip’ Rhinelander and their headline news story from the 1920s. It was a passing comment that I took to heart because I’d never heard of Alice or Kip and the actual true events that took place in New Rochelle, New York, and some of the other boroughs in the state that are at the heart of the Rhinelander vs. Rhinelander case. Now, I didn’t dive into the history immediately.