Annalee Whitmore Fadiman

{{Infobox person | name = Annalee Whitmore Fadiman | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Analee Whitmore | birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|05|26}} | birth_place = Price, Utah | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|02|05|1916|05|26}} | death_place = Captiva, Florida | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Writer and correspondent | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = {{plainlist| {{marriage|Melville Jacoby|1941|1942|end=d}} {{marriage|[[Clifton Fadiman]]|1950|1999|end=d}} }} | children = 2, including [[Anne Fadiman]] }}

'''Annalee Whitmore Fadiman''' (May 27, 1916 – February 5, 2002)<ref name="trib">{{cite web | title=Annalee Fadiman Obituary - Captiva, Florida | website=Tributes.com | date=August 16, 2006 | url=http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Annalee-Fadiman-74055027 | access-date=August 12, 2018}}</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">{{cite web | title=Anne Fadiman, a Writer, Wed to George Howe Colt | website=The New York Times | date=March 5, 1989 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/05/style/anne-fadiman-a-writer-wed-to-george-howe-colt.html | access-date=August 12, 2018}}</ref> Under the name '''Annalee Jacoby''' she was the co-author with [[Theodore H. White]] of ''[[Thunder Out of China]],'' a book of reportage on [[Second Sino-Japanese War|World War Two in China]].<ref name="tooc">{{cite book |last1=Jacoby |first1=Annalee |last2=White |first2=Theodore |title=Thunder Out of China |date=1947 |publisher=Victor Gollancz Ltd. |location=London |url=https://archive.org/stream/thunderoutofchin031761mbp}}</ref>

== Early life == 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]]'' student newspaper.<ref name="nyt02">{{cite web | last=Lehmann-Haupt | first=Christopher | title=Annalee Whitmore Fadiman, 85, Screenwriter and War Journalist | website=The New York Times | date=February 6, 2002 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/nyregion/annalee-whitmore-fadiman-85-screenwriter-and-war-journalist.html | access-date=August 12, 2018}}</ref> She moved from San Francisco, where she briefly worked at the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]], then 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">{{cite web |title=Annalee Whitmore |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926217/?ref_=tt_ov_wr |website=IMDB |accessdate=12 August 2018}}</ref>

== Career == 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.<ref name="sorel">{{cite book |last1=Sorel |first1=Nancy Caldwell |title=The Women Who Wrote the War |date=2000 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=0060958391 }}</ref>{{rp|141}}<ref name="nyt02" /> She became a publicity manager for [[United China Relief]], an aid organization, and wrote speeches for [[Madame Chiang Kai-shek]].<ref name="sorel" />{{rp|142}}<ref name="lascherblog2">{{cite web | title=75 Years Ago, When War Seemed a Million Miles Away | website=Lascher at Large | date=November 24, 2016 | url=https://lascheratlarge.com/blog/2016/11/24/melandannalee75th | access-date=August 12, 2018}}</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">{{cite web | title=Appreciation | website=Lascher at Large | date=April 24, 2017 | url=https://lascheratlarge.com/blog/2017/4/25/appreciation | access-date=August 12, 2018}}</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 work as a journalist. [[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 [[Chongqing]], China's wartime capital.<ref name="sfg02">{{cite web | title=Annalee Whitmore Fadiman -- screenwriter, journalist | website=SFGate | date=February 11, 2002 | url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Annalee-Whitmore-Fadiman-screenwriter-2874092.php | access-date=August 12, 2018}}</ref> After the war, 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" />

In the following years, she wrote, lectured, and participated in the radio quiz show ''[[Information Please]].''

==Personal life== She married Melville Jacoby on November 24, 1941 in Manila, Philippines.{{sfnb|Lascher|2016|}} 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">{{cite web | title=CLIFTON FADIMAN TO WED; Gets License With Mrs. Jacoby, Widow of War Correspondent | website=The New York Times | date=February 8, 1950 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/02/08/archives/clifton-fadiman-to-wed-gets-license-with-mrs-jacoby-widow-of-war.html | access-date=August 12, 2018}}</ref> The couple had two children, Kim Fadiman and [[Anne Fadiman]]. Fadiman lived on [[Captiva Island, 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== * {{cite book |last = Lascher |first =Bill |translator = |year = 2016 |title = Eve of a Hundred Midnights : The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and Their Epic Escape across the Pacific |publisher = William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers| location = New York|isbn = 9780062375209}}

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