Historian Audrey Clare Farley’s book on the life and involuntary sterilization of 1930s socialite Ann Cooper Hewitt, THE UNFIT HEIRESS, published this week to a flurry of coverage. Excerpts were featured in CrimeReads, Town & Country, and Ms. Magazine on publication day, and all three publications—along with Book Riot—named THE UNFIT HEIRESS a best book of April. Glowing reviews came in from the New York Post, The Progressive, and the New York Journal of Books, and Farley sat down for Q&As with Rewire News and The Progressive to discuss her research for the book. Farley also published an original essay in Salon about the legacy of eugenics in America, and held a virtual launch with Belletrist on Instagram Live to celebrate publication. Grand Central Publishing published the book on April 20, 2021.