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Annalee Whitmore Fadiman
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'''Annalee Whitmore Fadiman''' (May 27, 1916 - February 5, 2002)<ref name="trib"></ref> was a scriptwriter for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]], and World War II [[War correspondent|foreign correspondent]] for [[Life (magazine)|Life]] and [[Time (magazine)|Time]] magazines.<ref name="nyt89"></ref> She was the co-author with [[Theodore H. White]] of ''Thunder Out of China,'' a book on the Chinese civil war.<ref name="tooc">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Fadiman was born in Price, Utah, the daughter of bank president Leland Whitmore and Anne Sharp Whitmore, who later became a librarian at [[New York Public Library]]. Fadiman graduated from [[Stanford University]] in 1937. She was the first woman to be managing editor of the Stanford Daily newspaper.<ref name="nyt02"></ref> She moved from San Francisco, where she briefly worked at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, to Los Angeles taking a secretarial pool job at MGM. She wrote several screen treatments including ''[[Andy Hardy Meets Debutante]]''(1940) and a screen adaptation for ''[[Tish]].''<ref name="imdb"></ref>
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 tried to become a war correspondent but the War Department didn't allow female correspondents.<ref name="sorel">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="nyt02" /> She became a publicity manager for an aid organization called United China Relief and would write speeches for [[Madame Chiang Kai-shek]].<ref name="sorel" /><ref name="lascherblog2"></ref><ref name="nyt02" /> During her marriage to correspondent Melville Jacoby, Fadiman survived a month-long escape from the Philippines, and did six weeks of reporting from the front lines of [[Bataan]] and [[Corregidor]].<ref name="lascherblog"></ref> Their writings were used nearly unedited, by [[John Hersey]], in his best-seller ''Men on Bataan.''
After the death of her husband, she continued to pursue war writing. [[Theodore H. White]] persuaded Time Magazine's [[Henry Luce]] to petition the War Department for credentials for Fadiman. She became the only female correspondent reporting from Chungking.<ref name="sfg02"></ref> She collaborated with White on the best-selling book ''Thunder Out of China,'' about China's role in the war which contained portions of their published dispatches from Time.<ref name="nyt02" />
After the war Fadiman wrote, lectured, and participated in the radio quiz show ''[[Information Please]].''
==Personal Life==
She was married to Melville Jacoby on November 24, 1941 in Manila.<ref name="lascherbook">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He was killed in an airfield accident in Darwin in 1942 after the couple had moved to Brisbane.<ref name="sfg02" /><ref name="nyt02" /> She married Clifton Fadiman in 1950.<ref name="nyt5050"></ref>. The couple had two children, Kim Fadiman and [[Anne Fadiman]]. Fadiman lived in Captiva Florida and was a member of the [[Hemlock Society]]. She took her own life in 2002 after living with [[breast cancer]] and [[Parkinson's disease]].<ref name="sfg02" />
==References==
[[Category:1916 births]]
[[Category:2002 deaths]]
[[Category:American women journalists]]
[[Category:Women in World War II]]
Fadiman was born in Price, Utah, the daughter of bank president Leland Whitmore and Anne Sharp Whitmore, who later became a librarian at [[New York Public Library]]. Fadiman graduated from [[Stanford University]] in 1937. She was the first woman to be managing editor of the Stanford Daily newspaper.<ref name="nyt02"></ref> She moved from San Francisco, where she briefly worked at the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, to Los Angeles taking a secretarial pool job at MGM. She wrote several screen treatments including ''[[Andy Hardy Meets Debutante]]''(1940) and a screen adaptation for ''[[Tish]].''<ref name="imdb"></ref>
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 tried to become a war correspondent but the War Department didn't allow female correspondents.<ref name="sorel">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="nyt02" /> She became a publicity manager for an aid organization called United China Relief and would write speeches for [[Madame Chiang Kai-shek]].<ref name="sorel" /><ref name="lascherblog2"></ref><ref name="nyt02" /> During her marriage to correspondent Melville Jacoby, Fadiman survived a month-long escape from the Philippines, and did six weeks of reporting from the front lines of [[Bataan]] and [[Corregidor]].<ref name="lascherblog"></ref> Their writings were used nearly unedited, by [[John Hersey]], in his best-seller ''Men on Bataan.''
After the death of her husband, she continued to pursue war writing. [[Theodore H. White]] persuaded Time Magazine's [[Henry Luce]] to petition the War Department for credentials for Fadiman. She became the only female correspondent reporting from Chungking.<ref name="sfg02"></ref> She collaborated with White on the best-selling book ''Thunder Out of China,'' about China's role in the war which contained portions of their published dispatches from Time.<ref name="nyt02" />
After the war Fadiman wrote, lectured, and participated in the radio quiz show ''[[Information Please]].''
==Personal Life==
She was married to Melville Jacoby on November 24, 1941 in Manila.<ref name="lascherbook">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He was killed in an airfield accident in Darwin in 1942 after the couple had moved to Brisbane.<ref name="sfg02" /><ref name="nyt02" /> She married Clifton Fadiman in 1950.<ref name="nyt5050"></ref>. The couple had two children, Kim Fadiman and [[Anne Fadiman]]. Fadiman lived in Captiva Florida and was a member of the [[Hemlock Society]]. She took her own life in 2002 after living with [[breast cancer]] and [[Parkinson's disease]].<ref name="sfg02" />
==References==
[[Category:1916 births]]
[[Category:2002 deaths]]
[[Category:American women journalists]]
[[Category:Women in World War II]]
August 13, 2018 at 04:55AM
