In the mid-20th century, three trailblazing women journalists bore witness to the great changes happening and transformed readers’ understanding of the world. Martha Gellhorn stowed away in the bathroom of a Red Cross hospital ship to report from Omaha Beach on D-Day. Emily “Mickey” Hahn filed stories from Japanese-occupied Shanghai that transported American readers into the wartime life of a Chinese family. Rebecca West interviewed the sister of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s would-be assassin in 1930s Yugoslavia and then covered the Nuremberg trials.
These three women led lives and careers in constant motion: writing and traveling; reporting from the front lines and publishing novels to pay the bills; raising children and navigating complex networks of relationships; and nurturing each other’s work, even from afar. Following their globe-spanning progress through the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, journalist and author Julia Cooke shows how they not only found stories that others overlooked but also pioneered new ways of telling them, forever changing the possibilities for women in journalism and beyond.
Cooke's new book, Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), is available for purchase.
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