Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman

by Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert

Book Overview

*Winner of the 2023 Northern California Book Award*
The first biography of Elsie Robinson, the most influential newspaper columnist you've never heard of

At 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541674359
• ISBN13: 9781541674356
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"