novels, including one by james patterson, called the first lady, and books, journalists such as cokierebecca boggs roberts, lisa mccubbin hill and kate anderson brower, journalists who write books about living first ladies based upon interviews with those who knew them, are an interpretive first wave and very for scholars. i'm thinking here of bernstein on hillary clinton, ronald kessler and laura bush. peter slevin and michelle obama, for example, susan page interviewed barbara bush and darlene superville interviewed, jill biden for their books. but first ladies often seem decline interviews, especially when they have their own memoirs to pen. so in 1994, barbara bush published in the 2000. hillary clinton. barbara bush. laura bush. michelle obama and joe biden have all written one or more books. these later first ladies have been more forthcoming about the substance of their work. possibly they feel they're being taken more because of the growth of the field and our era. i want to remind us very briefly here that another marker of heightened in first lady studies is their increased