Deeply researched and briskly written, this first-ever biography of Eliza Scidmore, the pioneering journalist who fought to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington, DC draws heavily on her own writings to follow major events of a half-century as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman who was far ahead of her time.
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Deeply researched and briskly written, this first-ever biography of Eliza Scidmore, the pioneering journalist who fought to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington, DC draws heavily on her own writings to follow major events of a half-century as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman who was far ahead of her time.
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Lisa Damico (Author photograph) Very good in Very good jacket. xiv, 431, [1] pages. Author's Note. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Diana Parsell spent years as a reporter looking for good stories. She stumbled onto a great one while working in Southeast Asia. The reprint of an 1897 travelogue on Java inspired her to write the first-ever biography of its author, in Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees. A graduate of Marietta College in her Ohio hometown, Diana began her career in the editorial art department of National Geographic and later worked as a contract writer for several other divisions of the magazine. She has done writing and editing for a range of publications, science organizations and freelance clients. Her articles and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Washingtonian, Science News, Humanities, Potomac Review and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Diana has a certificate in publication design and management from George Washington University, and master's degrees from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and Johns Hopkins University. In 2011 she was among the writers and editors who founded the online Washington Independent Review of Books. In support of her new book, Diana received a Mayborn Fellowship in Biography and the 2017 Hazel Rowley Prize from Biographers International Organization (BIO). In an outgrowth of her book research at the Library of Congress, she gives public tours of its magnificent Jefferson Building as a volunteer docent. Every age has strong, independent women who defy the gender conventions of their era to follow their hearts and minds. Eliza Scidmore was one such maverick. Born on the American frontier just before the Civil War, she rose from modest beginnings to become a journalist who roamed far and wide writing about distant places for readers back home. By her mid-20s she had visited more places than most people would see in a lifetime. By the end of the nineteenth century, her travels were so legendary she was introduced at a meeting in London as "Miss Scidmore, of everywhere." In what has become her best-known legacy, Scidmore carried home from Japan a big idea that helped shape the face of modern Washington: she urged the city's park officials to plant Japanese cherry trees on a reclaimed mud bank-today's Potomac Park. Though they rebuffed her suggestion several times, she finally got her way nearly three decades later thanks to the support of First Lady Helen Taft. Scidmore was a "Forrest Gump" of her day who bore witness to many important events and rubbed elbows with famous people, from John Muir and Alexander Graham Bell to U. S presidents and Japanese leaders. She helped popularize Alaska tourism during the birth of the cruise industry, and educated readers about Japan and other places in the Far East at a time of expanding U.S. interests across the Pacific. At the early National Geographic, she made a lasting mark as the first woman to serve on its board and to publish photographs in the magazine. Around the same time, she also played an activist role in the burgeoning U.S. conservation movement. Her published work includes books on Alaska, Japan, Java, China, and India; a novel based on the Russo-Japanese War; and about 800 articles in U.S. newspapers and magazines. Deeply researched and briskly written, this first-ever biography of Scidmore draws heavily on her own writings to follow major events of a half-century as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman who was far ahead of her time.
