Gunther, Frances Fineman

Journalist Frances (Fineman) Gunther (1897-1964) attended Radcliffe College, and graduated from Barnard College in 1921. She married John Gunther, a writer, in 1927. The Gunthers lived in Europe from 1925 to 1936, and as the Vienna correspondent for the London News-Chronicle, she covered the establishment of a fascist regime in Austria in 1934. She worked in association with her husband for many years; they were divorced in 1944. A daughter had died in infancy and in 1947 their son John died shortly after graduating from Deerfield Academy, a story told in John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud. In 1949 Frances Gunther moved to Israel and continued to write articles and book reviews on nationalism, imperialism, and politics. She was the author of Revolution in India (1944). She died in Jerusalem in 1964.

From the description of Papers, 1915-1963 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007579