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The Diana Canon
Basic Training for Women
Find a Way.
New York: Random House. 2015.
“History Rewritten….to my GREAT Surprise!”
blog post. June 10, 2011 (archived)
Other Shores.
New York: Random House. 1978.
Articles
Archdeacon, Tom.
“A Free Spirit Tries to Plunge into History,”
Miami News
. June 16, 1978.
Bearak, Barry.
“Her Biggest Splash Will Be In Soap and Perrier Water,”
Miami Herald
. July 31, 1978.
Bushman, John.
“Making the Team…That’s the Name of the Game,”
Swimming World and Junior Swimmer
. September, 1968.
Dudar, Helen.
“Diana Nyad’s Magnificent Obsession.”
New Times
, 26 June 1978.
Galchen, Riva.
“The Hunger: Swimming from Cuba to Florida,”
Elle
. May 25, 2012.
Greenspan, Emily.
“Out Of The Water And Onto The Airwaves: The Obsessions Of Diana Nyad.”
Ms. Magazine.
October 1985.
Gum, Lori.
“Lost at Sea.”
(614) Magazine
. October 2013.
“In the Swim with Diana Nyad.”
Military Life
. November-December 1974.
Kennedy, Ray.
“‘Go For The Gold, Doc.’”
Sports Illustrated
. September 24, 1979.
Nyad, Diana.
“Endurance: How Marathon Swimmer Diana Nyad Both Triumphed Over—And Was Beaten by the English Channel.”
Mademoiselle
. April 1978.
[
Note:
“Endurance . . . ” is taken almost verbatim from the English Channel section of Nyad’s first memoir,
Other Shores
. Also, you’ll notice that the pages have water damage. That’s because I copied them from a bound volume that survived the
1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire
.]
Prial, Frank.
“Woman Swimmer Circles Manhattan On Her 2d Attempt.”
New York Times
. October 7, 1975.
Sataline, Susan.
“Celebration Gives Way to Questions and Doubt After a Record Swim.”
New York Times
. September 8, 2013.
Shapiro, Jane.
“Marathon Woman: What Makes Diana Nyad Swim?”
Viva
. November 1978.
Shapiro, Jane.
“The Obsession of the Long-Distance Swimmer.”
Ms. Magazine
. August 1978.
Shapiro, Jane.
“What Makes Diana Nyad Swim? An Absolutely Killing Ambition.”
The Village Voice
. February 2, 1976.
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Shapiro, Jane.
“What Makes Diana Nyad Swim? An Absolutely Killing Ambition.”
Eastern [Airlines] Review
. 1976.
Reprint (in part) of above article from
The Village Voice
Sherbert, Linda.
“Diana’s Big Splash In The Big Apple.”
Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel
. November 16, 1975.
Weil, Elizabeth.
“Marathon Swimmer Diana Nyad Takes On the Demons of the Sea.”
The New York Times Magazine
. December 1, 2011.
Whedon, Julia.
“Marathon Woman.”
New York Times
. June 18, 1978.
Books
Grossman, Joe.
A History of Marathon Swimming
.
Ft. Lauderdale: ISHOF. 2017.
Johnson, Capt. Tim.
History of Open-Water Marathon Swimming
.
Buzzard’s Bay: Captain’s Engineering Services. 2005.
Wennerberg, Conrad.
Wind, Waves, and Sunburn.
New York: Barnes. 1974.
Video
Diana: A Documentary
. WIGS Unscripted. 2012.
“Diana Nyad Discusses Historic Cuba-Florida Swim.”
ABC News. 2013. Includes transcript. Partial notated transcript
here
.
“Extreme swimming with the world’s most dangerous jellyfish.”
TEDMED. 2011.
Lake Forest College Commencement Speech.
May 9, 2015.
Middlebury College Commencement Speech.
May 25, 2014. Includes transcript.
Piers Morgan - Diana Nyad: ‘Our Team Is Squeaky Clean,’
CNN. November 9, 2013.
Transcript
.
Town Hall Seattle.
November 23, 2015.
Transcript.
Wheeler, Timothy.
The Other Shore
. 2013.
Web
“A Conversation with Diana Nyad.”
The Fit Formula. February 3, 2014.
“Diana Nyad.”
OpenWaterpedia.
Kay, Jennifer.
“Diana Nyad defends record Cuba-Florida swim as ‘squeaky clean.’”
NBC News. September 11, 2013.
Lemieux, Camille.
“Did Diana Nyad ’73 Lie in her 2015 Commencement Speech?: An Interview with Daniel Slosberg.”
Lake Forest College
Stentor
. March 3, 2017.
McCarley, Anthony.
Cuba to Florida Timeline.
December 2015
Morrison, Evan.
“Nyad Agonistes: The anatomy of a social media campaign.”
October 9, 2013.
Nyad, Diana.
“I am the world record swimmer Diana Nyad, ask me anything!”
reddit. 2014.
Riera, Gabriel.
“Conversations: Diana Nyad.”
MDC News
. August 31, 2016.
Robertson, Linda.
“Diana Nyad: Cuba-to-Florida swim was ‘squeaky clean.’”
Miami Herald
. September 17, 2013.
Zarella, John.
“Diana Nyad fires back against questions raised over her Cuba-Florida swim.”
CNN. September 11, 2013.