Hickok

Lorena Alice Hickok was born 7^th March 1893 in Wisconsin and grew up there, attending a college there for a year until she dropped out. She then proceeded to go into journalism and quickly became successful in her newfound career path. Hickok worker for the Minneapolis Tribune and the Associate Press, even gaining a few first for women journalists. By 1932 she had become the nations most well known woman’s reporter.

She was assigned by the Associate Press to cover Eleanor Roosevelt during her husband’s Presidential campaign and started a good relationship with the future First Lady that would last many years.

Roosevelt assisted Hickok in becoming the executive secretary of the Women’s Division Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 1940, in which she did groundwork for the election of that same year.

In a letter to Roosevelt she said:

“This job is such fun…It’s the nearest thing to newspaper work I’ve found since I left the AP”

She later co-authored Ladies of Courage with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1954, followed by The Story of Ladies Courage with Eleanor Roosevelt (1956) and several more.