Hick: The Trailblazing Journalist Who Captured Eleanor Roosevelt’s Heart

This biography traces Lorena “Hick” Hickok from a difficult childhood in the upper Midwest into a career in journalism. Supporting herself as a teenager, she later worked in newspapers and gained a reputation for reporting both news and feature stories in male-dominated newsrooms. By thirty-five, she had become a leading Associated Press reporter. Assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt during Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential campaign, Hick formed a close friendship and romantic relationship with the future first lady that lasted into the 1940s.