Two women journalists ahead of their time

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This is an ambitious dual biography of the British literary titan Rebecca West and the celebrated American journalist Dorothy Thompson. By force of will and their innate gifts, these pioneering proto-feminists achieved dazzling professional success but at heartbreaking personal cost.

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