Francine Klags­brun is the author of numer­ous books, most recent­ly Hen­ri­et­ta Szold: Hadas­sah and the Zion­ist Dream, part of the Jew­ish Lives series pub­lished by Yale Uni­ver­si­ty Press. Her pre­vi­ous book, Lioness: Gold Meir and the Nation of Israel, was named the Everett Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion Book of the Year for the 2017 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards. She was the edi­tor of the best-sell­ing book Free To Be…You and Me and wrote opin­ion columns for many years in both the Jew­ish Week and Moment mag­a­zine. Her writ­ings have also appeared in such nation­al pub­li­ca­tions as The New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek, and Ms.