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American women
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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Collier's
Cuba
emily hahn
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Ernest Hemingway
fast-paced
female friendship
gripping
group biography
H.G. Wells
Hong Kong
international
intrepid women
Japanese occupation
magazine writers
martha gellhorn
Mexico
mickey hahn
mid-century
narrative nonfiction
New Journalism
rebecca west
riveting
Sob Sisters
Spanish Civil War
the Blitz
The New Yorker
trailblazing women
war reporting
women at work
women biography
women journalists
women traveling alone
women writers
women's history
women's studies
working mothers
working women
World War II
Yugoslavia
Product details
- ISBN 9780374609788
- Weight: 667g
- Dimensions: 154 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rebecca West, Emily “Mickey” Hahn, Martha Gellhorn. Congo, the American South, Cuba, the lively salons of Shanghai, Yugoslavia on the brink of World War II, the shot-riddled streets of Spain, Hong Kong under Japanese occupation, Germany and Italy at war, post-Blitz London, McCarthy-era Mexico, and beyond. These women didn’t just bear witness to the great changes of the twentieth century, they didn’t just write the backstory to wars that roused their readers to support, they transformed the very world they were describing, and the way it was understood.
Each writer traversed the globe, searching for stories they would then dispatch to The New Yorker, The Times (London), The New York Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Collier’s, and Vogue. They often traveled alone, sometimes teaming up with other women reporters, sometimes with their husbands along for the ride. They sneaked onto the front lines when they were forbidden, interviewed civilians to gather color and detail. They wrote novels to pay the bills and articles to explain the world to itself. Over the course of their intertwining lives, they became mothers and friends, took joy in each other’s successes.
Julia Cooke's Starry and Restless is the story of three women whose curiosity, grit, and ambition expanded the possibilities for women and meaningful work.
Julia Cooke is the author of the books Come Fly the World, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and a Malala Yousafzai's Literati book club pick, and The Other Side of Paradise. Her essays have appeared in A Public Space, Salon, The Threepenny Review, Smithsonian, Tin House, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her reporting has been published in Condé Nast Traveler, The New York Times, Playboy, and other publications. She holds an MFA from Columbia University
