Renee Richards pens 2nd autobiography

[LostInTime]

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Richards has just written her second autobiography, "No Way Renee," with co-author John Ames, in which she talks about her 40-year career as an eye surgeon and her time as a professional tennis champion and coach to Martina Navratilova. Her first autobiography, "Second Serve," chronicled her decision to have the sex-change surgery.

At 72, she is living a quiet life in one of the most rural parts of Putnam County, playing as much golf as she can at the locally beloved Sedgewood Club off Route 301 and continuing her medical career. She has an apartment in New York City, which she shares with her 35-year-old son, Nicholas, who works in real estate.

"I've spent the last 30 years trying to lead a relatively sane and private existence," she said. "But I've been famous and infamous at the same time."

[Thundra]

"Nobody has written about a life like mine. I spent half my life as a woman and half as a man," she said, summing up her choices in unquestionably bland terms. "Usually it ends with the surgery - almost as if the subject rides into a pink cloud at the end of the day. It is not like that."

Well, yeah I can see her POV. Almost anything ever written on the subject goes to a surgery date, and then closes shortly after that. Life goes on. I will give her the benefit of the doubt until I read it.