The writer found herself growing annoyed by historians who portrayed Eleanor as some sort of political nun in a cloister: “I would read things like ‘She never had a sexual wish in her life.’ Oh, my God.” But I don’t think anyone is just one thing.” Eleanor always seems saintly (in most historical accounts). She had set her book “Lucky Us” in the 1930s and early 1940s, and while doing research, “I kept encountering the Roosevelts everywhere I would go. (All I was trying to do was) create a story a reader enters into until they close the book.”īloom began thinking about the novel after she enjoyed a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Most of the novels in the world are set in a previous time. “I was just writing a novel with some real people in it. “I have to say that it didn’t occur to me that I was writing historical fiction,” she says. The author says she wasn’t thinking about the biographical fiction genre when she became fascinated by Roosevelt and her connection to Hickok.
Since both women were rather matronly in appearance, and lived in a time when women were thought to be much less sexual than men, only Washington insiders suspected the relationship was more than a close friendship.
“White Houses” is a love story about a closeted gay relationship between one of the most famous women in the world and her unlikely lover.
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