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

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 & her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer & was willing to sacrifice everything for this goal, even swinging a pickax in a gold mine to pay the bills.    
When the mine shut down, she moved to the Bay Area. Armed with moxie & samples of her work, she barged into the offices of the Oakland Tribune & was hired on the spot. She went on to become a nationally syndicated columnist & household name whose column ran for over thirty years & garnered more than twenty million readers.   
Told in cinematic detail by bestselling author Julia Scheeres & award-winning journalist Allison Gilbert, Listen, World! is the inspiring story of a timeless maverick, capturing what it means to take a gamble on self-fulfillment & find freedom along the way.   
“That we suffer from a shortage of women’s histories is not new
information. But Robinson’s obscurity feels particularly surprising when
you consider both her popularity & the dramatic life behind her
hard-won sagacity…. Scheeres & Gilbert attempt to resurrect Elsie,
fill in her biography & place her in the pantheon of women we should
know about. The result is an engaging tale that doesn’t gloss over the
extreme adversity & restrictions Robinson faced as a woman of much
ambition & few means.”—New York Times