The activist, writer, and publisher Zoe Anderson Norris was a Kentucky belle who reinvented herself in Manhattan c.1900 to, “fight for the poor with my pen.” She published her own magazine, The East Side, focusing on immigrant poverty and calling for the world to help. To draw more people into her causes, she made sure to have fun, too; she partied with her fellow bohemian reformers, known as the Ragged Edge Klub, and became known as a Queen of Bohemia. Norris also documented her own paranormal experiences. In 1914, she mailed out an East Side issue with a description of a dream that she would die soon, and days later her heart failed at a Ragged Edge Klub dinner. Join author Eve Kahn to hear about the accomplishments and paranormal writings of Zoe, based on Kahn’s new book Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded-Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris.
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