Eleanor Roosevelt a romantic heroine in Amy Bloom’s new novel White Houses

    Amy Bloom explores “the kind of love that everybody hopes for” in her new novel White Houses, a fictional retelling of the enduring romance between Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Lorena Hickok. In this candid interview, Bloom – the New York Times Bestselling author of Away, Lucky Us and Where the God of Love Hangs Out – talks about her evolution as a writer and why she’s excited about plans to turn “White Houses” into a mini series for HBO.