From the Los Angeles Review of Books – Journalism and Love in Wartime China: My Q&A with Eve of a Hundred Midnights author Bill Lascher

I’ve blogged before about Bill Lascher’s Eve of a Hundred Midnights, the biography of Mel and Annalee Jacoby, two of the finest correspondents to cover wartime China. Of course they had both long interested me from the time I wrote a history of the foreign press corps in China from the 1830s to 1950s, Through the Looking Glass. Recently I got to fire a few questions at Bill about the book and its subjects – while Mel is interesting to me I must admit that I’ve also been long fascinated by Annalee Jacoby (who co-authored the WW2 best seller Thunder Out of China with Theodore White) and feel (as i mentioned recently when talking about Helen Foster Snow, wife of Edgar and a great writer in her own right) she’s been seriously overlooked.

Anyway, here’s my Q&A with Bill Lascher in the Los Angeles Review of Books China Blog….