About this Event
Allison Gilbert joins us in Remington to discuss her new book, LISTEN, WORLD!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman. Gilbert will be in conversation with journalist and author Leslie Gay Streeter. This event is free, but we'd love to know you're coming!
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 and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer and 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 and samples of her work, she barged into the offices of the Oakland Tribune and was hired on the spot. She went on to become a nationally syndicated columnist and household name whose column ran for over thirty years and garnered more than twenty million readers.
Told in cinematic detail by bestselling author Julia Scheeres and 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 and find freedom along the way.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Allison Gilbert is the author of Always Too Soon. She has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, and is a now a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post. She is the founder of Parentless Parents, a nationwide network of parents who have experienced the loss of their own mothers and fathers. Allison is also a public speaker and an Emmy award-winning television news producer. She graduated from Georgetown University and lives in New York with her husband and their two children.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Greedy Reads Remington, 320 West 29th Street, Baltimore, United States
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