‘Hick’ explores Eleanor Roosevelt’s long-rumored romance with reporter Lorena Hickock

‘Hick’ explores Eleanor Roosevelt’s long-rumored romance with reporter Lorena Hickock

Trailblazing journalist Lorena Hickok started working as a reporter in 1912, at a time when only about 1 in 5 women in the United States had jobs outside the home and their right to vote was still years away. It was that career that led Hickok to someone who would change her professional and personal life forever: Eleanor Roosevelt. In the new biography “Hick,” the title an ode to its subject’s nickname, author Sarah Miller explores Hickok’s imp…