Jennifer LansburyJennifer (Hobaugh) Lansbury was born in 1960 into a U.S. Marine Corps family while her father was stationed at Parris Island, in Beaufort, South Carolina. Many years later, she earned her PhD in history from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virgina. Her book, A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America (University of Arkansas Press, 2014), follows the stories of six athletes to explore the racism, sexism, and classism that twentieth-century black women athletes fought against. More Than Words Can Ever Tell is her second book. She resides in Springfield, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. Read More Read Less