we are so lucky to have as our guide tonight, please join me in welcoming susan quinn. [applause] >> thank you all. i am pleased to be talking at brookeline book smith. i feel out of sorts, i walk into the book smith and staff recommendations and they charged up and when they outsold and outlasted chain bookstores down the street, itself. [applause] felt like a personal triumph. tonight i talk about what went into the writing of "eleanor and hick: the love affair that shaped a first lady". every book has its ups and downs but this one has more than most i would think. 2008 eight years ago, published a book called furious improvisation about the federal theater project during the roosevelt administration and i loved writing about that period and thought i would like to continue. my first idea was to write about harry hopkins who is the second most important person in the new deal and the roosevelt during the war. enormously important figure. i wrote a lengthy lengthy proposal which i sent to the publisher, spend a year on it, nicely packaged and photographed, well-writte

tonight we welcome susan quinn ended her new book "eleanor and hick". although susan has for a long time i'm told 45 years may proclaim her home she was raised and educated in ohio. thank you, soap midwesterner here. i always appreciate meeting you out here. [applause] a graduate of oberlin college susan writes for periodicals first on a daily newspaper and then for publications including "ms." magazine "the new york times magazine" the atlantic monthly cambridge is the real paper and boston magazine. her investigative reporting on the transported cargo through boston and the underbelly of home inspections pages written books about the lives of marie curie as well as fdr's federal theatre project and the human trials about the process sometimes harrowing of modern drug development. "eleanor and hick" tells the story of lorena hickok reported much like her author and first lady eleanor roosevelt whose perseverance and a time that greatly disadvantaged women and his intimate relationship impossible romance has made them quiet icons of history for decades.

tonight, we welcome susan quinn and her new book eleanor and hicks. although susan has, for a long time, i'm told 45 years, made boston and brookline her home she was raised in ohio. thank you fellow midwesterner. i always appreciate meeting you out here. a graduate of overland college, she soon began to write her periodicals on a daily newspaper and then her publications including mid magazines, the new york times magazine, the atlantic monthly, cambridge, the real paper and boston magazine. her investigative reporting on the transport of dangerous through boston and the underbelly of home inspections were award-winning. she has written books about the lives of marie curry and psychoanalyst as well as the federal theatre project in the book human trials which is about the process. sometimes harrowing of modern drug development. she tells a story of a reporter, much like our author and first lady eleanor roosevelt. whose intimate relationship and possible romance have made them quiet clear icons of history for decades. tonight we will begin to delve in

we will also be selling susan's book.you can join our weekly email list or look us up on facebook which keeps getting reinvented and is very fast. tonight we welcomesusan quinn and her new book , "eleanor and hick". although susan has for a long time, i'm told 45 years made boston and brookline her home, she was raised and educated in ohio. thank you, admit midwesterners here. we appreciate meeting you. a graduate of oberlin college, susan wrote for periodicals, first on daily news and then for publications including ms. magazine, new york times magazine, atlantic monthly, damages the real paper and boston magazine. investigative reporting on the danger of cargo the boston and that was award-winning. she has written books about the lives of marie curie and psychoanalyst karen curry as well as fbi theater project and the book human child which is about the process, sometimes harrowing, of modern drug development. "eleanor and hick" is the story of lorena hickock, reporter and first lady eleanor roosevelt whose perseverance in a time that greatly disadvantaged ambitious women and whose infamous relationship and possible romance have made that icons of history