Annalee Whitmore Fadiman (May 27, 1916 – February 5, 2002)[1] was a scriptwriter for MGM, and World War II foreign correspondent for Life and Time magazines.
[4] 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.
[6]: 141 [4] She became a publicity manager for United China Relief, an aid organization, and wrote speeches for Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
[6]: 142 [7][4] 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.
Theodore H. White persuaded Time Magazine's Henry Luce to petition the War Department for credentials for Fadiman.