Born in Danville, Virginia,[2] she later moved to California, where she worked at the Los Angeles Herald and the San Francisco Call-Bulletin.
She became the first foreign woman correspondent to interview Chinese warlords Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu.
[3] In 1923, Booker married businessman John Stauffer Potter in Shanghai, where he was director of the Bank of China after the Second World War.
Just days before the relocation of citizens to Japanese internment camps, Booker Potter and her children fled to the United States.
[4] She later wrote a memoir of the family's China years entitled Tea On The Great Wall, published in 2014.