Clare Boothe Luce
US congresswoman (1942-1946), ambassador, playwright, socialite, and war reporter
Category Archives: Journalism
Continue reading
May Craig
Washington correspondent Elisabeth May Adams Craig covered World War II with the same keen eye and sharp tongue that informed her daily “Inside in Washington” column for nearly fifty years.
Toni Frissell
Remembered today principally for her high-fashion photography for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, Toni Frissell volunteered her photographic services to the American Red Cross, Women’s Army Corps, and Eighth Army Air Force during WWII. On their behalf, she produced thousands of images of nurses, front-line soldiers, WACs, African-American airmen, and orphaned children.
Thérèse Bonney
Bonney’s images of homeless children and adults on the backroads of Europe touched millions of viewers in the United States and abroad during WWII.
Esther Bubley
Photographer Esther Bubley found ample subject matter to explore on the American homefront as the nation mobilized for war during WWII.
Violet May Cottrell
May Cottrell published more than 1,000 articles in 13 countries.
Mary Scott
Highly successful, prolific, comic and realistic New Zealand literature writer.
Louisa Baker
Louisa Alice Baker was a prolific writer who described herself as ‘bred under the Southern Cross, held cheaply there – and labelled in London’.
Anna Louise Strong
Prolific writer and journalist who brought socialist politics to the mountains when she co-founded Cooperative Campers of the Pacific Northwest in 1916.
Kimiko Kaye Tambara
Journalist and activist who documented the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during WWII