Jay R. Tunney

The curious story of the unlikely relationship between a champion boxer and a celebrated man of letters. Gene Tunney, the world heavyweight-boxing champion from 1926 to 1928, seemed an unusual companion for George Bernard Shaw, but Shaw, a world-famous playwright, found the Irish-American athlete to be «among the very few for whom I have established a warm affection.» The Prizefighter and the Playwright chronicles the legendary – but rarely documented – relationship that formed between...