Journalist, Pulitzer Prize Recipient. She is remembered for her work as a war correspondent with the New York Herald Tribune from 1942 until 1963 and as a syndicated columnist with Newsday from 1963 to 1965. Her father worked for a shipping company in Hong Kong and at age three she moved to Oakland, California with her family. In 1937 she enrolled at the University of California in Berkeley and graduated in 1941 with a bachelor of arts degree in French. She then moved to New York City, New York to pursue a career as a journalist and through her persistence and tenacity, she was hired by the New York Daily Tribune and enrolled at Columbia University School of Journalism to pursue a master's degree. In 1944 she convinced the management of the newspaper to send her to Europe and after being posted in London, England and Paris, France, she was reassigned to Germany in March 1945 where she witnessed the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. She later covered the Nuremberg war trials and the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin. In 1947 she became the chief of the Tribune's bureau in Berlin. In 1950 she was named chief of the Tribune's Tokyo bureau and shortly after her arrival, the Korean War Broke out and On June 28, she and three of her colleagues witnessed the Hangang Bridge bombing, and were trapped on the north bank of the Han River. After crossing the river by raft and coming to the US military headquarters in Suwon the following day, she was quickly ordered out of the country by US Army General Walton Walker. She appealed to General Douglas MacArthur, Walker's superior, who allowed her to remain. Despite MacArthur's ruling, the Tribune sent over Homer Bigart, to cover the war in Korea, and he told her to go back to Tokyo. She refused and the Tribune allowed her to stay, which led to a competitive feud between the two that would result in both receiving the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. As a result of her reporting from Korea, she was awarded the 1950 George Polk Memorial Award from the Overseal Press Club. She contributed along with other major journalistic and political figures to the Collier's magazine collaborative special issue "Preview of the War We Do Not Want", with an article entitled "Women of Russia". She continued to cover foreign affairs throughout the rest of her life, interviewing world leaders such as Francisco Franco, Nikita Khrushchev, and Jawaharial Nehru. In 1955 she established and became chief of the Tribune's Moscow bureau and was the first American correspondent allowed back into the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death. In 1963 she joined Newsday and was assigned to cover the War in Vietnam and wrote a book on her experiences entitled "Our Vietnam Nightmare". After returning home from her Vietnam assignment in November 1965, she contracted leishmaniasis, an infectious disease caused by parasites she probably picked up in Vietnam, and it led to her death at the age of 45. In September 2010, she was posthumously awarded the South Korean Order of Diplomatic Service Merit for her work as a journalist during the Korean War.