Anne Fremantle

Anne Fremantle, born Anne Marie Huth Jackson on June 15, 1909, in Aix-les-Bains, France, was an English-American journalist, translator, poet, novelist, and biographer. She died on December 26, 2002, in London, England. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, she married Christopher Fremantle in 1930 and had three children. Fremantle was a Labour Party candidate in the 1935 UK general election. During World War II, she worked as an ambulance driver and BBC broadcaster in London before moving to the United States, where she became an American citizen and converted to Roman Catholicism. She was known as a prominent host in postwar New York, with Evelyn Waugh calling her "the smartest woman in America." Fremantle published approximately 30 books and thousands of articles throughout her career. After her husband's death, she returned to London.