Michele Willens

Michele Willens is a freelance writer based in New York. She reports on the theater world for NPR-owned Robin Hood Radio. She cowrote, with Wendy Kout, the play Don’t Blame me. I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas.

The First H The First H

If California's historic 1950 Senate race had gone the other way there would have been no Checkers speech, no Watergate break-in, no Woodward and Bernstein, perhaps an early exit f...

Apr 28, 2008 / Feature / Michele Willens

The Liberator Released The Liberator Released

In the issue of January 4, 1866, The Nation--itself founded by a group of abolitionists--paid tribute to the final issue of William Lloyd Garrison's fiery anti-slavery newspaper,...

Feb 7, 2002 / Feature / Michele Willens

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