I was checking out a feature on LinkedIn today, their question and answer forums. Not dissimilar from the QOTD type features on other services like VOX, and many other social networks. Not sure what makes the one at LinkedIn interesting compared to others, but I’ll keep trying it out.

Regardless, the question I was responding to was what is your favorite autobiography and why. My answer is Days of Grace.

This is the autobiography of Arthur Ashe, co-authored by Arnold Rampersad (Langston Hughes’s biographer). An incredible sports figure and an inspiring man of courage, class and intelligence. He was one of the most highly regarded people in sports during his day, who came up in a time when being a black athlete couldn’t have been much more challenging.

Later in life he was confronted with something that in his own words was much more challenging than having a career in a white dominated sport, and growing up black in southern virginia. He had AID’s. And AID’s eventually took his life.

I’m forever thankful that he gave us this incredible view into one mans life journey, as I have found it to be incredible guidance in my life. And I’m thankful to my sister who gave me this book as a gift many years ago.

Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace @ Amazon