"To fight for the poor with my pen" was the goal of Zoe Anderson Norris, a Kentucky-born Manhattan writer and reformer. Fearlessly and wittily, Zoe (as everyone called her) reported undercover on slumlords, sweatshops, sexual predators, bribe-takers, and anti-immigrant bigots (whose rhetoric persists today), while finding solace with her bohemian friends called the Ragged Edge Klub. Pulitzer finalist Amy Reading calls scholar Eve Kahn’s book “a daring story told with exceptional verve.”