Jill Norgren
Jill Norgren is a biographer, book reviewer, and longtime member (now emerita) of the political science faculty at the City University of New York. She published Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers (New York University Press, 2013). In 2007 she published Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be President about the first American woman to be admitted to the US Supreme Court bar as well as the first woman to run a full campaign for the presidency (in 1884).
Norgren is also co-creator of the web site HerHatWasintheRing: U.S. Women Who Ran for Political Office before 1920 -- www.herhatwasinthering.org;
Her web page can be found at: www.jillnorgren.com
Culture Watch: The View from Penthouse B and The Paris Wife
Culture Watch Book Reviews: The Bookman's Tale and Rebels at the Bar; The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers
Culture Watch Book Reviews: My Beloved World and Consider the Fork
CultureWatch — The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy; The Mysteries and International Negotiating of Midsomer Murders and Kidnap and Ransom