Awards & Winners

Blanche Wiesen Cook

Date of Birth 20-April-1941
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Blanche Wiesen-Cooke, Blanche Weisen Cook
Profession Author, Professor, Historian
Blanche Wiesen Cook, Distinguished Professor of history at John Jay College in the City University of New York, is the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884–1933, 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. An out lesbian, Cook is also the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2, The Defining Years, 1933–1938, and The Declassified Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy of Peace and Political Warfare. On October 21, 2013, the historian Douglas Brinkley mentioned on the television program "First Ladies" on CSPAN, that Professor Cook was currently writing Volume 3 of her Eleanor Roosevelt series. She received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2010.

Awards by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Check all the awards nominated and won by Blanche Wiesen Cook.

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Biography/Autobiography Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 2: The Defining Years, 1933-1938

1992


Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
Honored for : Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933