The Ardent Writer Press

The Women War Correspondents Series

The Women War Correspondents Series

The Ardent Writer Press decided to memorialize the dashing and adventurous women journalists and correspondents of the WWII era, a time when women’s roles in journalism was usually limited to receipe books and fashion magazines. Instead, these women were on the cutting-edge of feminism and journalistic history with their presumptuous takeover of this alpha-male society of writers.
We proudly wave the banners of these intelligent and forthright women through the republication of their books and memoirs. In 2019 we have published two women’s work, that of Irene Kuhn and Oriana Atkinson (along with her husband Brooks, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Correspondence in 1947).
We plan to republish the works of Helen Kirkpatrick and Irina Skariatina in 2020 with others possibly added afterwards, assuming permissions from the respective families can be had.

Top Left (1) Female Correspondents (L to R) Ruth Cowan, Sonia Tomara, Rosette Hargrove, Betty Knox, Iris Carpenter, Erika Mann. Taken in 1944. Via/ Wiki Commons; Top Center (2) Helen Kirkpatrick in 1944; Top Right (3) Oriana Atkinson, wife of Pulitizer Prize winner Brooks Atkinson who wrote of post-war Moscow in Over at Uncle Joe’s; Lower Left (4) Claire Booth Luce, U.S. Congressman, Author and U.S. Ambassador with good friend Irene Kuhn, famous journalist and broadcaster; Lower Right (5) Marguerite Higgins Hall, Korean War Journalist aboard a transport plane with other journalists