Blanche Wiesen Cook

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Blanche Wiesen Cook (born April 20, 1941 in New York City) is the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1993, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winning biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Cook's biography is controversial because of her claims that Roosevelt had a lesbian affair with reporter Lorena Hickok. She is also the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938.