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Hers is the story of a Jewish girl from the Middle West turned dynamic celebrity author, the kid down the street who spoke her dreams out loud and then managed to fulfill every one of them. Her name was constant newspaper fodder. It appeared in reviews of her twenty-six books; in reports of her travels, her lifestyle (including the marriage she curiously chose to hide from her friends as well as the public), her diet, and her provocative public statements; and in her obituary, which was front-page news, even in The New York Times. With stories and novels such as “Humoresque,” Back Street, and Imitation of Life, Fannie Hurst reigned as the leading “sob sister” of American fiction in the 1920s and 1930s. Her name on the cover of a magazine was enough to sell out an issue. (http://www.literaryladiesguide.com/book- description/fannie-talent-success-writer-fannie-hurst- brooke-kroeger/attachment/fannie-hurst-the-talent-for- sucess-of-writer-fannie-hurst/) Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst by Brooke Kroeger (http://amzn.to/2zV4mQx) on Amazon She wrote of immigrants and shopgirls, love, drama, and trauma, and in no time the title “World’s Highest-Paid Short- Story Writer” attached itself to her name. Hollywood fattened her bank account, making her works into films thirty-one times in forty years. Fannie Hurst lent her prominence and pen to the day’s significant socialist, liberal, humanitarian, and feminist causes. She became a forceful supporter of the rights of African- Americans, and was an early friend and literary advocate of Zora Neale Hurston (http://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author- biography/hurston-zora-neale/) and Dorothy West (http://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biography/west- rebecca/). 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This is a carefully drawn, extensively researched, and entertaining portrait of one of the most successful, glamorous, and forward- thinking women of the twentieth century. Brooke Kroeger directs NYU Journalism’s graduate Global and Joint Program Studies (https://journalism.nyu.edu/graduate/programs/global- and-joint-program-studies/) and has been a faculty member since 1998. She was department chair from 2005-2011 and the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s inaugural director. Her latest book, The Suffragents (http://amzn.to/2hNmCa9), chronicles the prominent, influential men whose support helped women get the vote. She is also the author of Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are (http://amzn.to/2ixt95D), Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist (1994) (http://amzn.to/2j8Xbft)and others. *This post contains affiliate links. 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