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Judith Mackrell

Biography

Judith Mackrell

Judith Mackrell is the critically acclaimed author of THE UNFINISHED PALAZZO and FLAPPERS. She is also a celebrated dance critic, and her biography of the ballerina Lydia Lopokova, BLOOMSBURY BALLERINA, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. She also coauthored THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF DANCE.

Judith Mackrell

Books by Judith Mackrell

The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II
by Judith Mackrell - History, Nonfiction

On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle: Martha Gellhorn, who got the scoop on Ernest Hemingway on D-Day by traveling to Normandy as a stowaway on a Red Cross ship; Lee Miller, who went from being a Vogue cover model to the magazine’s official war correspondent; Sigrid Schultz, who hid her Jewish identity and risked her life by reporting on the Nazi regime; Virginia Cowles, a “society girl columnist” turned combat reporter; Clare Hollingworth, the first English journalist to break the news of World War II; and Helen Kirkpatrick, the first woman to report from an Allied war zone with equal privileges to men. In Judith Mackrell's THE CORRESPONDENTS, these six women are captured in all their complexity.