Ernestine Evans

Ernestine Evans

Ernestine Evans (August 9, 1889 - July 3, 1967) was a journalist, editor, author and literary agent.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, she attended the University of Chicago, receiving a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1912.

Evans authored the first book on the famed Mexican painter Diego Rivera. This illustrated oversize book, "The Frescoes of Diego Rivera", was published in 1929 by Harcourt Brace. The following year, Rivera was invited to the United States, and in 1931, he was the subject of a retrospective at New York City's Museum of Modern Art.

Over the course of her career, Evans worked for several publishing firms and literary agencies, including Coward-McCann and Lippincott (now Lippincott Williams & Wilkins). She also did freelance journalism and editing for publications including The Century Magazine, The New York Herald Tribune, Asia Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Manchester Guardian; in addition, she reviewed books for The New York Times, Saturday Review, The New Republic, Survey Graphic, and Delphian Quarterly. Evans's journalistic career frequently took her overseas, a somewhat unusual state of affairs for a single woman at this time. (Evans was a divorcée, but little is known of her personal life.)

Evans was a gregarious individual and a tireless writer of letters. She demonstrated an eagerness to expand her network of colleagues, collaborators and companions, and she engaged in correspondence with such luminaries as Walker Evans (no relation) and Jean Renoir, among many others.

Evans's career also involved work for the United States government. She worked for the Resettlement Administration, where her duties included conducting research for Roy Stryker, a pioneer in the field of documentary photography and a central figure in the Farm Security Administration. Additionally, during World War II, Evans worked for the Office of War Information in the Overseas Publications department of the Publications Bureau.

Evans was a member of the Society of Woman Geographers, a group co-founded by her close friend Gertrude Emerson Sen.

See also

* Roy Stryker
* Gertrude Emerson Sen
* Society of Woman Geographers
* Office of War Information

External links

[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D14F93458117B93C6A9178CD85F438685F9&scp=1&sq=%22ernestine%20evans%22&st=cse/ Evans's obituary in "The New York Times"]


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