About the author

Dorothy Wickenden

Dorothy Wickenden, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was the executive editor of the magazine for twenty-six years, and she hosted its podcast The Political Scene from 2007-2022.

She is the author of The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights and the New York Times bestseller Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West. A Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Nothing Daunted was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, and The Boston Globe.

Wickenden and her husband live in Westchester, New York.