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Dorothy Wickenden

Biography

Dorothy Wickenden

Dorothy Wickenden is the author of NOTHING DAUNTED and THE AGITATORS, and has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since January 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast "The Political Scene." A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Wickenden was national affairs editor at Newsweek from 1993-1995, and before that was the longtime executive editor at The New Republic. She lives with her husband in Westchester, New York.

Dorothy Wickenden

Books by Dorothy Wickenden

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
by Dorothy Wickenden - History, Nonfiction

Harriet Tubman --- no-nonsense, funny, uncannily prescient and strategically brilliant --- was one of the most important conductors on the underground railroad and hid the enslaved men, women and children she rescued in the basement kitchens of Martha Wright, Quaker mother of seven, and Frances Seward, wife of Governor, then Senator, then Secretary of State William H. Seward. Beginning two decades before the Civil War, when Tubman was still enslaved and Martha and Frances were young women bound by law and tradition, THE AGITATORS ends two decades after the war, in a radically changed United States.