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MGM offered her a contract but once the war began, Fadiman found "the prospect of seven years of Hollywood fluff when the real world was falling apart unendurable," and she applied to become a war correspondent but the War Department didn't allow female correspondents. She became a publicity manager
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to petition the War Department for credentials for Fadiman. She became the only female correspondent reporting from Chongqing, China's wartime capital. After the war, she collaborated with White on the best-selling book
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She married Melville Jacoby on November 24, 1941 in Manila, Philippines. He was killed in an airfield accident in Darwin in 1942 after the couple had moved to Brisbane.
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Fadiman was born in Price, Utah, the daughter of bank president Leland Whitmore and Anne Sharp Whitmore, who later became a librarian at
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Eve of a Hundred Midnights : The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWWII Correspondents and Their Epic Escape across the Pacific
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about China's role in the war which contained portions of their published dispatches from Time.
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In the following years, she wrote, lectured, and participated in the radio quiz show
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student newspaper. She moved from San Francisco, where she briefly worked at the
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After the death of her husband, she continued to work as a journalist.
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in 1937. She was the first woman to be managing editor of the
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in 1950. The couple had two children, Kim Fadiman and
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Index

MGM
foreign correspondent
Life
Time
Theodore H. White
Thunder Out of China
World War Two in China
New York Public Library
Stanford University
Stanford Daily
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Tish
United China Relief
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Bataan
Corregidor
John Hersey
Theodore H. White
Henry Luce
Information Please
Clifton Fadiman
Anne Fadiman
Captiva Island, Florida
Hemlock Society
breast cancer
Parkinson's disease
ISBN
9780062375209
"Annalee Fadiman Obituary - Captiva, Florida"

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