Author writing about reporters on Corregidor/Visiting in Mar
Feb 13, 2015 2:41:16 GMT 8
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Post by Bill Lascher on Feb 13, 2015 2:41:16 GMT 8
Hello,
I'm a writer based in Portland, Oregon. I'm currently working on a book to be published by William Morrow & Co. about the journalists Melville Jacoby and Annalee Jacoby. The Jacobys were contributors to Time and Life magazines and some of the only correspondents accredited to work on Corregidor. They'd arrived there on the morning of Jan. 1, 1942, after fleeing from Manila on La Florecita, the last boat out of the city before it fell. They'd left after their close journalist friends - particularly Carl and Shelley Mydans - chose to stay behind at the Bay View and were subsequently interned. As many of you may be aware, the Jacobys were responsible for all of Time and Life's reporting from Corregidor and Bataan, and Mel took all of the photos that those magazines published after Carl was captured. Annalee also contributed to Liberty Magazine, and even wrote about it for Douglas's Douglas Airview. They later fled to Cebu and from there to Australia aboard the Dona Nati.
Mel was also my grandmother's cousin, so I'm fortunate to have all of Mel's personal correspondences, dispatches, etc, as well as a handful of pictures he was able to take on the trip between the Philippines and Australia. Many of these are very detailed descriptions of operations, conditions, and interviews with officers and enlisted men that never ended up in print.
I'm excited to say I'm finally going to the Philippines (and China, where the Jacobys fell in love and where Mel was a reporter before Henry Luce transferred him to Manila) for my first visit. I'll be spending a night on Corregidor, likely at the end of the third week of March, and I look forward to my visit. I'll also be meeting with some relevant people in Manila and then going to the other places the Jacobys stopped as they fled the country.
I'm curious whether any of you have advice about what I should see or do that I may not have thought of, or if any of you have any questions for me that I can answer about the Jacobys and their time in the Philippines. Naturally, I think I'll answer many of the questions and provide a great story in my book, which is due to my editor in June. We don't yet have a publication date established, but I will share it as soon as one is.
I look forward to speaking to all of you here, and to seeing Corregidor.
Here's a picture of the couple in the uniforms they wore as accredited correspondents:
-Bill.
P.S. a brief summary of my book is here: lascheratlarge.com/melville and there is a category on my blog with posts about the story here. There are some pictures here and there on the blog, though I'm saving many of the great ones for when the book comes out.
I'm a writer based in Portland, Oregon. I'm currently working on a book to be published by William Morrow & Co. about the journalists Melville Jacoby and Annalee Jacoby. The Jacobys were contributors to Time and Life magazines and some of the only correspondents accredited to work on Corregidor. They'd arrived there on the morning of Jan. 1, 1942, after fleeing from Manila on La Florecita, the last boat out of the city before it fell. They'd left after their close journalist friends - particularly Carl and Shelley Mydans - chose to stay behind at the Bay View and were subsequently interned. As many of you may be aware, the Jacobys were responsible for all of Time and Life's reporting from Corregidor and Bataan, and Mel took all of the photos that those magazines published after Carl was captured. Annalee also contributed to Liberty Magazine, and even wrote about it for Douglas's Douglas Airview. They later fled to Cebu and from there to Australia aboard the Dona Nati.
Mel was also my grandmother's cousin, so I'm fortunate to have all of Mel's personal correspondences, dispatches, etc, as well as a handful of pictures he was able to take on the trip between the Philippines and Australia. Many of these are very detailed descriptions of operations, conditions, and interviews with officers and enlisted men that never ended up in print.
I'm excited to say I'm finally going to the Philippines (and China, where the Jacobys fell in love and where Mel was a reporter before Henry Luce transferred him to Manila) for my first visit. I'll be spending a night on Corregidor, likely at the end of the third week of March, and I look forward to my visit. I'll also be meeting with some relevant people in Manila and then going to the other places the Jacobys stopped as they fled the country.
I'm curious whether any of you have advice about what I should see or do that I may not have thought of, or if any of you have any questions for me that I can answer about the Jacobys and their time in the Philippines. Naturally, I think I'll answer many of the questions and provide a great story in my book, which is due to my editor in June. We don't yet have a publication date established, but I will share it as soon as one is.
I look forward to speaking to all of you here, and to seeing Corregidor.
Here's a picture of the couple in the uniforms they wore as accredited correspondents:
-Bill.
P.S. a brief summary of my book is here: lascheratlarge.com/melville and there is a category on my blog with posts about the story here. There are some pictures here and there on the blog, though I'm saving many of the great ones for when the book comes out.