Elaine Weiss is a Baltimore-based journalist and author, whose feature writing has been recognized with prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists, and her byline has appeared in many national publications.
Elaine's most recent book, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Viking/Penguin) has won critical acclaim from the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and The New Yorker, hailed as a "riveting, nail-biting political thriller" with powerful parallels to today's political environment. The Woman's Hour was a GoodReads Readers' Choice Award winner, short-listed for the 2019 Chautauqua Prize, and received the American Bar Association's highest honor, the 2019 Silver Gavel Award.
Elaine is a graduate of Kirkland/Hamilton College and holds a graduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University. Her previous book, Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army in the Great War (Potomac/U.of Nebraska Press) was featured in Smithsonian Magazine.
Elaine is a popular public speaker and frequent media commentator on the themes of women's political organization and modern voting rights, with interviews on NPR's All Things Considered, CBS Sunday Morning, and PBS American Experience. Her next book, Spell Freedom, will be published by One Signal/Simon & Schuster.
