I am a 1930s aficionado (both US and Europe) and ran across something new. A then-very-famous US woman journalist Dorothy Thompson with an interesting life.
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Dorothy Thompson was born circa 1890 in upstate New York. Her mother died when she was young, and she crossed swords with her stepmom and was sent to live with relatives. She graduated in economics and politics from Syracuse, I assume around 1910.
She worked on women's suffrage in the nineteen-teens and became a journalist in Europe in the 1920s.
Based initially in Vienna, she became fluent in German and closely tracked Hitler from the 1920s to the 1930s. She was married to Sinclair Lewis from about 1930 to 1940, and they had one son.*
She was evicted from Germany in 1934 after a book very critical of Hitler. She continued to write about Nazism and Fascism in through the 30s and 40s. One short book is available in paperback reprint, Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and Its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States, 1938. It's great content but written in a short format (100pp) and easy reading. She broadcast in German to Germany for a while, collected as "Listen Hans" 1942 (ebook).
Sources circa 1939 present her as one of the best known women writers in the US, someone on the cover of TIME magazine, and as "the second most influential American woman after Eleanor Roosevelt."
She became anti-Israel due to her concern for Palestinians in the late 1940s which led to being essentially blacklisted and publishing less. She died in 1961.
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Sinclair Lewis was a best selling author of 1930s and won Nobel prize.
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Two biographies are available as ebooks.
Her antifascism book, "Political Guide," 1938, could be compared and contrasted to the contemporary pro-fascism book Wave of the Future by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1940.
WIkipedia:
One her being the model for Katherine Hepburn in "Woman of the Year"...
Saturday Evening Post, 2011, Jeff Nilsson, "The Real Woman of the Year" Here. "D.T. and Sinclair Lewis" Here.
