Vicki Robin had no idea she’d become a millennial icon.
The 72-year-old coauthor of the 1992 bestseller Your Money or Your Life was recuperating from a hip replacement early last year when a young man she’d met at a sustainability event months prior told her she was popular on a Reddit forum about financial independence.
Image: Author Vicki Robin on a favorite trail near her home in Whidbey Island, Wash., in March Photograph by Ian Allen
