Early Life
青年期
Childhood Helen was born in Cedar City, Utah on September 21, 1907.
"I had wanted to be a great author since the time I was eight...I had read Edith Wharton who said that you have to stay abroad in a foreign country to get perspective before you can write about your own American experience. The contrast is what energizes your brain and talent...I knew I had to go overseas and stay there awhile, about a year or so. Otherwise I would never become a great author."
-Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution Helen and her family at the house where she was born
Credit- Bridging: A Photo Essay on the Life of Helen Foster Snow |
A photo capturing Helen in her childhood
Credit- Bridging: A Photo Essay on the Life of Helen Foster Snow To achieve this goal, Helen traveled to China in 1931. She worked as a secretary for the American Consulate in Shanghai.
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Marriage
In China, Helen met another journalist named Edgar Snow. They were married on Christmas Day, 1932 in Tokyo, Japan.
Credit- Bridging: A Photo Essay on the Life of Helen Foster Snow