ABOUT LORENA HICKOK
Journalist who became a confidant, and perhaps more, to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt during Franklin D. Roosevelt 's term in the oval office.
She was covering the soon-to-be First Lady for the Associated Press, and got to know her on a personal level during a long train ride.
In over 3,000 letters were passed between Eleanor and her beloved Hick. The two women may have struck up, as some historians have argued, a lesbian relationship.
She was born in East Troy, Wisconsin as the daughter of Anna Adelsa, a dressmaker, and Addison Hickok, a buttermaker.
As a shadow advisor to FDR , she also helped Eleanor Roosevelt in some initiates, working, as some historians said, as "the woman behind the woman."
