Edna Lee Booker

Edna Lee Booker Potter (October 4, 1897 – October 27, 1994) was an American journalist who authored several books about China during the 1930s and 1940s.

Biography Born in Danville, Virginia, she later moved to California, where she worked at the Los Angeles Herald and the San Francisco Call-Bulletin. They were living in Shanghai in 1937, when Imperial Japan invaded and occupied China. Just days before the relocation of citizens to Japanese internment camps, Booker Potter and her children fled to the United States. However, her husband was interned for years. In 1947, her daughter married the son of newspaper magnate Henry Luce.

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.