Name: Kentucky’s Own Queen of New York’s Bohemia
Start: 2025-09-10T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 1310 S 3rd St, Louisville, KY, United States, Kentucky 40208

$Kentucky\u2019s Own Queen of New York\u2019s Bohemia$

Explore how Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914) evolved from an impoverished Kentuckian theologian’s daughter into a restless Kansan housewife and then a prolific New York writer, reformer, and publisher. In her bimonthly magazine The East Side, Zoe (as everyone called her) set out “to fight for the poor with my pen.” Her fellow Manhattan bohemians—writers, filmmakers, performers, politicians—joined an intentionally disorganized organization that she founded, the Ragged Edge Klub, and appointed her Queen of Bohemia. The last issue of The East Side described her recent dream that she would soon die, and after that accurate premonition made headlines in hundreds of newspapers nationwide, she fell into obscurity, until now.