Agnes Smedley was one of the most significant American women of the 20th century, a flamboyant journalist, feminist, and political activist who made historic contributions to letters and politics on ...

AGNES SMEDLEY IS NOT MUCH remembered today. During the late 1940s she was the bête noire of the China Lobby for her labors on behalf of Chinese communism, but her name did not pop up in the decrypted ...

"I may not be innocent, but I'm right" is the epigraph that begins this masterful, beautifully written and researched biography of Agnes Smedley. It captures perfectly the ironic and impassioned ...

In Hankow, the Chinese de facto capital, last week appeared Miss Agnes Smedley, a U. S. author who was first widely heard of during the kidnapping of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Jan. 4, 1937 ...

In Dawu County, once a key anti-Japanese base tucked away in the mountains, final preparations are underway for an exhibition honoring the New Fourth Army's Fifth Division - a Communist Party of China ...

Agnes Smedley came to San Diego in May 1912, to train as a teacher at San Diego Normal School — later San Diego State University. She’d never heard of the International Workers of the World, Emma ...

Novelist Marlene Lee of Columbia, Mo. (and New York City), enters the dicey genre of historical fiction with “No Certain Home,” a fictionalized account of the real-life Agnes Smedley. Smedley was a ...

Agnes Smedley (February 23, 1892 - 6 May 1950) was an American journalist and writer best known for her semi-autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth. She was also known for her sympathetic ...

This scanned copy of a file photo taken by American journalist Agnes Smedley in February of 1940 shows Sheng Guohua (front row, looking down) posing for a group photo with some members of a children's ...