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Vietnam reporters Gloria Emerson (above) and Frances FitzGerald (below)
are two of the seven distinguished women journalists featured in the BU
Special Collections exhibition On the Front Line: Women Journalists on
War and Politics, in the Richards-Frost Room on the first floor of Mugar
Memorial Library. Emerson covered haute couture for the New York Times
from London and Paris, traveling to Belfast and Nigeria in between fashion
assignments and lobbying for a job in the Saigon bureau. “They finally
sent me,” she says, “because they’d run out of men.”
Emerson, stationed in Vietnam from 1970 to 1972, received the George Polk
Award for foreign reporting. Her book Winners and Losers, about the aftermath
of the war, won the National Book Award in 1978. FitzGerald, whose Department
of Defense ID card is one of an array of personal items -- including notebooks,
diaries, and manuscript pages -- on display, won the National Book Award
and the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and
Americans in Vietnam. The exhibition, which is open during regular library
hours, also examines the work of reporters Martha Gellhorn, Marya Mannes,
Flora Lewis, Laura Bergquist, and Gertrude Samuels. For more information,
call 617-353-3696.
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October 2002
Boston University
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