Wichita's 'Queen of Bohemia' celebrated in New York City

By Joe Stumpe

Society wifeturned-gossip columnist Zoe Anderson Norris stirred up early Wichita with her sharp pen. As it turns out, she was just getting started.

Norris went on to become one of the most prolific writers of her time as well as a colorful New York City personality known as the “Queen of Bohemia.” Now, the author of a forthcoming biography of Norris wants to rescue her from the relative obscurity into which she fell after her death in 1914.

“I’m fueled by the fact that she constantly wrote about how women’s stories don’t get told,” Eve Kahn said.

“She was misquoted and misportrayed in the press, and she ranted about it.”

Kahn’s book about Norris has been accepted by an academic press and is expected to be published next year. In March, Kahn is staging an exhibit and will speak about Norris at the Grolier Club in Manhattan, the country’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and graphic arts enthusiasts.

Kahn is a former antiques columnist for The New York Times who’s also written about art, architecture and design for it and other publications. She first learned about Norris in 2018 when she visited the home of a New Jersey physician and noted collector of American periodicals. He handed

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