In addition to the papers of May Craig, who was a foreign war correspondent as well as a White House reporter, the division's journalism holdings include several
other collections of women who wrote about foreign affairs.
Dubbed “the first lady of the black press” for her pioneering coverage of civil rights, the Vietnam War, and international
affairs for the Chicago Daily Defender and the Afro-American newspapers, Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991) [catalog record] was also the first black woman commentator on network television. A few months after Payne's death in 1991, the Manuscript
Division acquired a collection (15,500 items; 1857-1991; bulk 1973-91) documenting her journalism career and her involvement
in the civil rights movement and protests against South African apartheid.
Janet Flanner (1892-1978) [catalog record] , who wrote under the pseudonym Genêt, and her longtime companion Solita Solano (1888-1975) were among the American journalists, writers, and literary editors who settled in Paris, France, in the twenties.
They covered international affairs for The New Yorker and other American publishers. Their papers, known as the Flanner-Solano collection (3,000 items; 1870-1976; bulk 1955-75),
provide a window into the literary and intellectual life of Paris and New York during the first half of the twentieth century.
They counted among their friends and acquaintances prominent women such as Berenice Abbott, Margaret Anderson, Djuna Barnes,
Kay Boyle, Nancy Cunard, Anita Loos, Carson McCullers, Gertrude Stein, and Alice B. Toklas. Additional papers, relating primarily
to the last decade of Flanner's career and her lesbian relationship with editor Natalia Danesi Murray (1901-1994) [catalog record] , may be found in a separate Flanner-Murray collection (4,500 items; 1940-84), which includes the selections Murray published
in Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend (1985).
Boston Globe and New York Times Herald journalist Dorothy Godfrey Wayman (1893-1975) [catalog record], who lived in Japan for many years, donated a collection (6,000 items; 1862-1971) documenting her newspaper career, her
research on Edward Sylvester Morse and others, and her interests in Catholicism and religious matters in Asia.
