Susan Henry

Susan Henry has spent three decades writing about previously unrecognized women who made significant contributions to American journalism during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Her 2012 book, Anonymous in Their Own Names: Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant, consists of intertwined biographies of women who were their husbands' uncredited partners in remarkable media ventures: helping found the field of public relations, writing one of the most popular and influential newspaper columns of the 1920s and '30s, and creating The New Yorker. A former editor of Journalism History, Henry is emeritus professor of journalism at California State University, Northridge.

About Anonymous in Their Own Names: Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant

Anonymous in Their Own Names recounts the lives of three women who, while working as their husbands' uncredited professional partners, had a profound and enduring impact on the media in the first half of the twentieth century. With her husband, Edward L. Bernays, Doris E. Fleischman helped found and form the field of public relations. Ruth Hale helped her husband, Heywood Broun, become one of the most popular and influential newspaper columnists of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1925 Jane Grant and her husband, Harold Ross, started the New Yorker magazine. This is a collective biography of three New York City women who pushed boundaries, changed media, and advanced the cause of equality