Louise Cripps Samoiloff (13 December 1904 – 21 September 2001) was a British-born writer, journalist, historian and editor who became an American citizen and wrote several books advocating the case for the independence of Puerto Rico.
[1] She studied journalism at University College London during the mid-1920s and aimed to become a literary writer, though found work in London as a journalist and editor working for various publications including Nursery World and British Vogue.
[4] After the war she continued to work as a journalist and publisher, editing an American publication Baby Post.
In the 1960s, she moved for her retirement to Puerto Rico, where she wrote many books about the island and putting the case for independence, as well as other works of history and a novel, Lirazel.
[5] Over the course of her life, Cripps knew many key intellectual figures of the twentieth century, including C. L. R. James (with whom she had a relationship during the 1930s), Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, George Grosz, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Harold Laski, Gordon K. Lewis, Norman Thomas, G. K. Chesterton, Havelock Ellis, Izrael Hieger and Earle Birney.