
Evelyn Hugo and journalism: how the two worlds collide
“Doesn’t it bother you? That your husbands have become such a headline story, so often mentioned, that they have nearly eclipsed your work and yourself? That all anyone talks about when they talk about you are the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo?”“No,” she told me. “Because they are just husbands. I am Evelyn Hugo.”The quote, said by Evelyn Hugo to the young journalist Monique Grant, is not just a quote. It’s a warning. A reminder that telling stories comes with a price, power and consequences.Rel...