Edna Lee Booker

Edna Lee Booker was an American journalist who authored several books about China during the 1930s and 1940s.

Career

She arrived in Shanghai in 1922 as foreign correspondent for the International News Service of New York City and as, in her own words, a "girl reporter" for the China Press, then the leading American daily in China. She had previously worked on the Los Angeles Herald and the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, and became the first foreign woman correspondent ever to interview the two Chinese warlords, Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu.

Family

Booker was married to her husband John Potter who was a businessman. Together they raised their family in Shanghai while the Japanese invaded and occupied China. Just days before the relocation of citizens to Japanese internment camps, Booker and her children fled to the United States. However, her husband was interned for years. Her daughter, Patricia Luce Chapman, wrote a memoir of the family's China years entitled "Tea On The Great Wall," published in 2014.[1]

Works
  • News is my job; a correspondent in war-torn China. 1940. New York, The Macmillan Company.
  • Flight from China. with John S. Potter. Decorations by Peggy Bacon. 1945. New York, The Macmillan Company.
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See also

References
  1. "Edna Lee Booker's classic Flight from China: Inside account of Japanese occupation of China and World War II". Quid Pro Law. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
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