Sue Macy always loved playing sports and grew up favoring catch and football over playing house. She graduated from Princeton with a BA in History and American Studies and went on to work at Scholastic, where she honed her writing style and gained an interest in writing about women in sports. Macy devotes significant time to researching and interviewing women who played sports before it was popular to do so. She served on the board of directors of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Players Association and is actively involved in the promotion of female athletes and their stories.
Titles
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) (National Geographic Children’s Books, 2017)
Motor Girls: How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century (National Geographic Children’s Books, 2017)
Trudy’s Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm (Holiday House, 2017)
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber(Simon and Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2016)
Sally Ride: Life on a Mission (A Real-Life Story)(Simon and Schuster Digital, 2014)
Roller Derby Rivals(Holiday House, 2014)
A Whole New Ball Game: The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League(Henry and Holt Co., 2013)
Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoops on the Map(Holiday House, 2011)
Bylines: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly (Photobiographies)(National Geographic Children’s Books, 2009)
Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics(National Geographic Children’s Books, 2008)
Freeze Frame: A Photographic History of the Winter Olympics(National Geographic Children’s Books, 2006)
Bull’s-Eye: A Photobiography Of Annie Oakley (Photobiographies) (National Geographic Children’s Books, 2001)
Girls Got Game: Sports Stories and Poems(Henry Holt and Co., 2001)
Play Like a Girl: A Celebration of Women in Sports (Henry Holt Young Readers, 1999)
Barbie: Shooting Hoops (Golden Books, 1999)
Winning Ways: A Photohistory of American Women in Sports (Henry Holt and Co., 1996)