author
James Dwight
1852–1917
Best remembered as a pioneer of American tennis, he also wrote one of the sport’s earliest instructional books. His life bridged athletics, medicine, and the first organized years of lawn tennis in the United States.
2 Audiobooks
The Laws of Euchre As adopted by the Somerset Club of Boston, March 1, 1888
by Herbert Corey Leeds, James Dwight
Lawn-tennis
by James Dwight
About the author
Born in France in 1852 and raised in an American family, James Dwight became one of the central figures in the early history of lawn tennis. He is widely remembered as the "Founding Father of American Tennis," a reputation tied to both his success as a player and his role in helping establish the sport in the United States.
Alongside his competitive career, he wrote Lawn-tennis (1886), an early guide to the game that helped explain and promote the sport during its formative years. Catalog records such as Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page list him as an author under the dates 1852–1917, preserving his place in print as well as in sports history.
Dwight died in 1917, but his name still appears wherever the origins of American tennis are discussed. For readers coming to him through his writing, he offers a glimpse of a moment when a new pastime was just beginning to become an organized modern sport.