While these women rarely overlapped during reporting assignments, their love of writing, travel, mentorship, and friendly competition united them for seven decades of “bylines and books.” West, born Cicely Fairfield, was active in the British suffrage movement and traveled to Yugoslavia in the late 1930s “to see what history meant in flesh and blood”; Hahn, a free spirit known for her pet gibbons and attendance at high society parties, charted a path through Europe, Congo, and China, eventually becoming The New Yorker’s China Coast correspondent; and the Elsa Schiaparelli-clothed Gellhorn wound her way through the front lines of the Spanish Civil War to the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, filing articles while dodging bombs and an increasingly strained relationship with the writer Ernest Hemingway.