Katie Hickman on Neither Heroines Nor Villains: The Brave-Hearted Women Who Settled the American West

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Katie Hickman on Neither Heroines Nor Villains: The Brave-Hearted Women Who Settled the American West

Andrew Keen

Oct 26, 2022

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Katie Hickman, author of Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West.

Katie Hickman is the author of nine previous books, including two international bestsellers of history. She has also written two highly acclaimed travel books, and a trilogy of historical novels, which between them have been translated into twenty languages. Born into a diplomatic family, Hickman had a peripatetic childhood, growing up in Spain, Ireland, Singapore, and South America. She lives in London on a converted barge on the River Thames.

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