Iranian-American journalist who, for over 20 years, has covered all sorts of wars and uprisings across the Middle East, in places like Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, the West Bank, Turkey, Syria, and more. She is the United Nations Bureau chief for the New York Times and was a senior writer and war correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years, based in the Middle East.
Mexican novelist and short story writer.
Mexican writer and radio and television producer
Irish broadcaster and public relations consultant
When World War II broke out in 1939, freelance photojournalist Marvin Breckinridge Patterson took the first pictures of a London air-raid shelter.
May Cottrell published more than 1,000 articles in 13 countries.
Iva Toguri D’Aquino, who gained notoriety as the mythical Tokyo Rose, was the seventh person to be convicted of treason in U.S. history.
As a young opera star, Shimozumi encountered frequent incredulity at her unaccented English from those who assumed she a Japanese national. During World War II she was sent to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center solely because of her Japanese ancestry.
Irish journalist, broadcaster, and activist
New Zealand teacher, educationalist, and writer of children’s literature