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Ernestine Evans (August 9, 1889 - July 3, 1967) was an American journalist, editor, author and literary agent. ==Life== Born in Omaha, Nebraska, she lived in Elkhart, Indiana during her childhood and attended the University of Chicago, receiving a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1912. She was arrested in 1917, along with Peggy Baird Johns and Dorothy Day, for picketing on behalf of women's rights.〔Janis P. Stout, ''Katherine Anne Porter: a sense of the times'', University of Virginia Press, 1995. p169. ISBN 0-8139-1568-6〕 In the 1920s, according to the historian Alan M. Wald, she was married to Kenneth Durant, the head of the United States branch of the Soviet press agency TASS.〔Alan M. Wald, ''Exiles From a Future Time: the forging of the mid-twentieth-century literary left'', UNC Press, 2002, p232. ISBN 0-8078-5349-6〕 Secret services reports released by the United Kingdom government in 2005 state that Evans left for Britain with Durant in 1925, after Durant was expelled from the United States due to his connection with various Communist front organisations.〔(nationalarchives.gov.uk )〕 Her relationship with Durant was over by 1935, when he married Evans's former colleague, the poet Genevieve Taggard.〔Laurie Champion, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ''American Women Writers, 1900-1945: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000, p339. ISBN 0-313-30943-4〕 In the 1930s she met Walker Evans and Ben Shahn. Walker Evans was impressed by her intelligence and was always quick to point out they were not related.〔Belinda Rathbone, ''Walker Evans: A Biography'', Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000, p78. ISBN 0-618-05672-6〕 Evans's career also involved work for the United States government. She worked for the Resettlement Administration, where her duties included conducting research for Roy Stryker, a pioneer in the field of documentary photography and a central figure in the Farm Security Administration. Additionally, during World War II, Evans worked for the Office of War Information in the Overseas Publications department of the Publications Bureau. With this position, she collaborated with the African-American photographer Gordon Parks, her colleague at OWI, who would go on to rise to prominence as a documentary photographer and film director. Evans was a member of the Society of Woman Geographers, a group co-founded by her close friend Gertrude Emerson Sen. Toward the end of her life, Evans suffered from a slew of medical problems, including cataracts. She died in New York City. Her archival papers are held by Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernestine Evans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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