Troublemaker featured in NPR’s “New Books” for Nov 25th
November 25, 2025
NPR has included Troublemaker in its “New Books” list for November 25th.
The six aristocratic Mitford sisters and their wildly divergent paths — including communism, fascism and seemingly every pursuit in between — have furnished enough material already for a biography, a collected correspondence and a television series, not to mention the acclaimed 1960 memoir of the second-youngest, Jessica. It is Jessica’s implausibly eventful life of radical activism and muckraking journalism that takes center stage in this rollicking new history from Kaplan, a literary historian who previously made her bones with studies of Zora Neale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance.