John hlavacek biography
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Letters Home: An American in China: 1939-1944
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By John Hlavacek
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After graduating from Carleton College in Northfield, MN in 1939, John Hlavacek sailed to China to the Carleton-in-China mittpunkt School in Fenchow, Shansi Province. As John describes it, many Midwesterners had little knowledge of China, other than famine, disease, and war. After weeks of training in Chinese in Peking, John traveled to the compound in what was then Japanese-occupied China.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherJohn Hlavacek
Release dateJan 5, 2011
ISBN9781936840038
John and Pegge spent their lives traveling the world reporting as foreign press correspondents. John first taught English in China during the 1930s, after graduating from Carleton College. He then joined the United Press in 1944 as a war correspondent. He met Pegge Parker, a beautiful widowed journalist with an eye toward writing her way around the world. They married, living an
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Freelancing in Paradise
What's it like to cover news events and famous people while living in one of the world's most picturesque hideaways?
John and Pegge (Parker) Hlavacek describe an exotic lifestyle of which most writers only dream. After living and working in India during the first five years of their marriage (1952-1957), the Hlavaceks moved their five children and Indian nanny to New York when John accepted a one-year fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations.
When the fellowship ended, the Hlavaceks moved to Jamaica where John and Pegge supported the family by providing freelance writing and photography services to print, radio, and TV news outlets.
They covered news events during a turbulent period in Latin American history, and interviewed politicians and other celebrities who visited Jamaica.
In December 1961 the family moved to Florida when John accepted a position as staff correspondent for NBC in Havana.
Freelancing in Paradise is the fifth book in
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After graduating from Carleton College in June 1939, John Hlavacek sailed for China to teach English at the Carleton-in-China Middle School in Fenchow, Shansi Province. In what was then Japanese-occupied China, John taught English for two years in Shansi and Szechwan, then delivered medical supplies to foreign mission hospitals for the Red Cross. In 1941, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, John signed up with the American Military Attache, next joining the United Press as a war correspondent in 1944. His book, Letters Home - An American Reporter in China: 1939-1944, details the turbulent events taking place in China during this time period. After leaving China, John continued his work as a foreign correspondent, next reporting from India, Jamaica, and Cuba, along with his wife Pegge Parker and their children. The Hlavaceks' work was reported through such publications as NBC News, Time, Life, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Miami Herald, among others.
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