Buying the Night Flight: The Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent

Chicago's South Side to Castro's Havana

Georgie Anne Geyer was one of the first American women to file frontline reporting from revolutions, war zones, and guerrilla territory for a major daily newspaper. This is her memoir.

From the city desk of the Chicago Daily News to datelines around the world, Geyer pushed past the women's pages and into foreign correspondence at a time when the beat was almost entirely closed to women. The first in her family to attend college, she left Chicago's Sout...