Raising Two Americans

Virginia Kraft was a woman working as a sportswriter and editor at Time, Inc.’s new Sports Illustrated in the “Mad Men” era of the 1950s and 1960s. She hunted and fished with kings and queens, took part in dogsled races and showed up unannounced at Ernest Hemingway’s home in Cuba only to be invited right in by “Papa” on her reputation alone.

So how come no one, and I mean just about no one, has ever heard about her or her accomplishments decades later?

As freelance journalist Emily Sohn, writing for Long Lead, explains in The Catch, well, it’s complicated …

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