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Margaret Ashton Stimson Lindsley (2 January 1889 – 12 July 1956), known professionally as Lorna Lindsley, was a journalist, war correspondent, and author of the book, ''War Is People'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1945). The ''Saturday Review'' noted that her book told “the epic of endurance and courage in a fight which sometimes looks heroic, but more often proves to be only burdensome and cruel; which is not reported in the official war communiqués but represents an essential part of the great struggle of our times.”〔F.C. Weiskopf, “The Human Fabric,” ''Saturday Review'', March 20, 1943, p. 15.〕 == Biography == Lorna Lindsley was born on 2 January 1889 to Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855–1943) and Elizabeth Bradlee Abbot Stimson (1858–1896) in Dedham, Massachusetts. She was the younger of two daughters. Her father was U.S. ambassador to Argentina from 1915 to 1921, and author of several law books, including ''The American Constitution'' (1908) and ''Popular Law-making'' (1910), as well as novels and short stories. Lorna Lindsley attended Radcliffe College and in 1909 married mining engineer Halstead Camp Lindsley (1880–1945). The couple had two daughters, Leonora (1917–1945) and Joan (1913–1971) before divorcing in 1921. Lorna moved to Paris in the 1920s, where she took an apartment at 20 rue de Cels in Montparnasse and became part of the circle of expatriate Americans living in the city. In the early 1930s, she crossed the Atlantic from Majorca to Boston in a sailing ship.〔“Lorna Lindsley, Writer, 67, Dead,” ''New York Times'', July 14, 1956, p. 15.〕 In 1935, she co-wrote a play about Lord Byron with Gilbert Seldes called ''The Marble Heart'', but it does not appear to have been staged.〔“Gossip of the Rialto,” ''New York Times'', April 28, 1935.〕 In 1936, Lorna and her daughter Leonora journeyed from Auckland, New Zealand, to Tahiti aboard the sailing ship ''Joseph Conrad'' under the command of Alan Villiers. Although he never mentions their presence in the book he wrote about the voyage (''Cruise of the Conrad'', Scribner's, 1937), he wrote about them in his diary, portions of which are quoted in his biography.〔''Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds'' by Kate Lance (National Maritime Museum, 2009).〕 Lorna Lindsley began to write articles for American newspapers in the late 1930s, including the ''Manchester Guardian'', the ''New Statesman'', the ''Nation'' (U.K.), ''Time and Tide'', the ''Christian Science Monitor'', and the ''New York Herald Tribune''. In 1938, she travelled to Spain during the Spanish Civil War to report on the fate of the Loyalist forces for a French newspaper. After leaving Spain, she travelled to Palestine and wrote about the struggles of the Zionists there. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she was in France and aided the earliest Resistance efforts, before returning to the United States in 1941. These experiences formed the basis of her book, ''War Is People''. Many of its chapters had previously appeared in print as newspaper articles. After the war, she continued to travel, including visiting Kenya to learn about the Mau Mau Uprising. She died in New York on 12 July 1956, of a cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 67. 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「Lorna Lindsley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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