Julia Scheeres

Listen, World!

How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman

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The first biography of Elsie Robinson, the most influential newspaper columnist you've never heard ofAt thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she'd lost it all. Reeling from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this goal, even swinging a pickax in a gold mine to pay the bills.When the mine shut down, she moved to the Bay Area. Armed with moxie and samples of her work, she barged into the offices of the Oakland Tribune and was hired on the spot. She went on to become a nationally syndicated columnist and household… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gilbert, Allison

ISBN: 978-1-5416-7434-9
EAN: 9781541674349
Produktnummer: 38176383
Verlag: Basic Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Julia Scheeres is the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir Jesus Land and the award-winning A Thousand Lives:The Untold Story of Jonestown. She lives Northern California.Allison Gilbert is an award-winning journalist and author of numerous books including Passed and Present and Parentless Parents. She lives outside New York City.