Born in East Troy, Wisconsin to a dressmaker and a dairy-farmer, Hickok had an unhappy childhood marked by isolation and abuse. After her mother's death when Hickok was fourteen, she left home, worked on her own, and completed high school with the help of a cousin.
In addition to being America's longest-serving first lady from , Eleanor Roosevelt was also probably the most influential Sorry, Michelle! But we do appreciate your "Let's Move" program and amazing dance moves.
The story was co-written by Timothy Dwyer, co-author of Hissing Cousins: It's a good bet that somewhere over those rainbows, Eleanor Roosevelt's spirit will be marching, too.
Sometimes the only way to right a historical wrong—like, say, the constant need of biographers to erase same-sex relationships where they so obviously, and often even shamelessly, existed in plain sight—is to write a novel that tells the truth so persuasively that it overwrites any bias or doubt. This is how I have come to imagine these characters.
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Maybe you learned it right here on Autostraddle. Maybe you had a super awesome high school history teacher who broke away from the confines of state-sanctioned education and actually acknowledged that not all of U.
