Grief Is My Side Hustle

Ep. 75. Allison Gilbert: Journalist, Author, double parent loss and 9/11 survivor


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Allison Gilbert is an award-winning journalist and co-author of Listen, World!, the first biography of American writer Elsie Robinson, a newspaper columnist who came from nothing and became the most-read woman in the country and highest-paid woman writer in the William Randolph Hearst media empire. The New York Times raves “One does not tire of spending time with Elsie Robinson” and the Wall Street Journal proclaims the book “an important contribution to women’s history.” Susan Orlean effuses the biography is “the rarest of things — a lively piece of unknown history, a marvelous story of a woman’s triumph, and a tremendous read.”

Gilbert is host of “Women Journalists of 9/11: Their Stories,” a 20-part documentary series produced in collaboration with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. For this, she interviewed such luminaries as Savannah Guthrie, Maggie Haberman, Dana Bash, and Linda Wertheimer. She is co-executive producer of the companion 2-hour film that featured, among many others, Tom Brokaw, Rehema Ellis, Ann Thompson, Scott Pelley, Byron Pitts, Ann Compton, and Cynthia McFadden. Gilbert is the official narrator of the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s historical exhibition audio tour, the only female journalist to be so honored.

Allison Gilbert writes regularly for the New York Times and other publications. On her blog, she features Q & A’s with some of the most notable names in our culture today including, Arianna HuffingtonJon StewartHenry Louis Gates Jr.Dani Shapiro, and Gretchen Rubin.

Allison is co-editor of Covering Catastrophe: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11 and author of Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both ParentsParentless Parents: How the Loss of Our Mothers and Fathers Impacts the Way We Raise Our Children, and Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive.

Gilbert lives in New York with her husband and two children. You can connect with her on FacebookTwitter, and Instagram

 
 
Events:
Wednesday, November 9
New York Public Library — IN PERSON
6:00pm ET
476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018
A special evening with Sunny Hostin (co-host of ABC’s The View and author of Summer on the Bluffs)
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/11/09/allison-gilbert-sunny-hostin-listen-world
 
Wednesday, November 16
Society of Illustrators — VIRTUAL
6:00pm ET
In conversation with Liza Donnelly (New Yorker cartoonist and author of Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists)
https://societyillustrators.org/event/listenworld/
 
Friday, November 18
New-York Historical Society — IN PERSON
7:00pm ET
170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
In conversation with Brooke Kroeger (founding director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU and author of the forthcoming Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism and Julie Golia (associate director of Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books at NYPL and the author of Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age)
https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/listen-world-elsie-robinson-newspaper-columnists?date=2022-11-18
 
Tuesday, November 29
Books & Books Key West — VIRTUAL
7:00pm ET
In conversation with Christina Baker Kline (author of The Exiles)
https://booksandbookskw.com/events/gilbert/
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