![]() Should the novelist invent details and conversations that can't be confirmed? Is it fair to dramatize the sex lives of our dead heroes, especially one as private and shy as Eleanor Roosevelt?īloom apparently thinks so. ![]() Novelists Amy Bloom and Kelly O'Connor McNees each have taken on the task of imagining that relationship. After destroying some of the more incendiary ones, Hickok donated the remainder to the Franklin D. In fact, an intimacy existed between the two women that was documented in more than 3,000 letters they exchanged. Lash, who knew the Roosevelts well and made a cottage industry out of writing about them, barely mentions Hickok in his book "Eleanor and Franklin." Until recently, historians had largely ignored Hickok - she preferred "Hick" - and the nature of her relationship with the first lady. In the genre of reimagined historical lives, we are presented with not one but two novels about Eleanor Roosevelt and Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok. ![]() ![]() "Undiscovered Country," by Kelly O'Connor McNees. ![]()
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