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Ann Cottrell Free was an American author and activist. She was a pioneering journalist, who raised public awareness of animal suffering and environmental damage. Her most famous works are "Forever the Wild Mare", "Animals, Nature, and Albert Schweitzer", and "No Room, Save in the Heart".
Background
Ann Free was born on the 4th of June,1916 in Richmond, Virginia, United States, the only child of Emily Dunlop Blake and Emmett Drewry Cottrell. Growing up, she spent many happy summers with her beloved grandparents "Pet" and George McD. Blake, in the small town of Louisa, Virginia, United States.
Education
As a child, Ann Free studied at Collegiate School for Girls in Richmond, she was also educated at Barnard College and graduated from Columbia University in 1938.
Ann Cottrell Free began her newspaper career in 1936 while still in college, working summers on the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where she was a reporter for two years.
After graduation Ann headed west to Hollywood, working as a press agent for Paramount Pictures and meeting such stars as Sterling Hayden and Fred MacMurray. Movie producer Edward H. Griffith asked Ann to come to Charlottesville to handle the on-location publicity for his movie "Virginia", starring MacMurray, Hayden and Madeleine Carroll. When the shooting was over, Ann continued to write for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, while looking for ways to escape her hometown.
Ann moved to Washington in 1940 and became the first full-time woman Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine. From 1941 to 1943 she served for the Chicago Sun, followed three years with the New York Herald Tribune.
After the War, Ann went to China as a special correspondent for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). She reported on the plight of refugees and devastating famine. She interviewed Gen. Chou En-Lai, who later became premier, and his wife, Mme. Chou En-lai, who was a survivor of the Long March, as well as U.S. General George C. Marshall. She was evacuated on the last plane out of Manchuria when peace talks collapsed between Marshall, the Communists, and the Kuomintang government.
In 1947, following Free’s United Nations assignment, she became a roving correspondent through 14 countries. She wrote stories for the New York Herald Tribune and other newspapers from French Indochina (now Vietnam) during its last days. In India, she covered Mahatma Gandhi and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and witnessed the transfer of power from British Viceroy Lord Mountbatten to Nehru, narrowly escaping the Moslem-Hindu riots that followed. She traveled to Egypt and lived among Yugoslavian war refugees; a journey to Geneva resulted in an interview with Eleanor Roosevelt during the framing of the Human Rights Declaration.
In 1948-49 Ann joined the Marshall Plan as a special correspondent, reporting on U.S. efforts to rebuild war-ravaged Europe. She filed stories from France, Italy, Austria, and Germany for what is now The International Herald Tribune.
Marrying in 1950, Free took a break from journalism for five years before joining the North American Newspaper Alliance as a Washington correspondent, a job she continued until 1985.
In the late 1950s, Ann began writing about animal protection and her stories helped mobilize congressional and public support for the successful passage of the Humane Slaughter and Animal Welfare Acts.
But it wasn't just the animals Ann was concerned about. She was one of the first reporters to write about pollution of the environment, particularly from pesticides. In the 1970s and 80s, she contributed frequent columns on pollution, ecology, Earth Day, and conservation to the op-ed pages of the Washington Post and Washington Star and wrote a monthly column for EnviroSouth magazine. In the early 1960s, Ann's stories on chemicals drew the attention of marine biologist Rachel Carso and she wrote a column with her husband called "Whirligig" in which she addressed environmental issues at that time.
In 1982 Ann exposed the National Zoo's plan for shotgun and bow and arrow hunts of deer within its fenced facility in Virginia. Ann's testimony as the chief witness at a special congressional hearing resulted in the cancellation of the hunt. Free also helped establish the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Maine, was a co-founder of the Vieques Humane Society and Animal Rescue in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and actively worked to get the Humane Slaughter and Animal Welfare Acts passed.
Over the years, Ann wrote for many publications, contributing columns and stories to The Washington Star, The Washington Post, Defenders of Wildlife, This Week magazine, The Animal Welfare Institute Quarterly , EnviroSouth, the Birmingham News, the Albert Schweitzer Courier, Between the Species, Modern Maturity, the North American Newspaper Alliance and the Women's News Service.
Ann Cottrell Free also authored two books "Forever the Wild Mare" in 1963, "Animals, Nature and Albert Schweitzer" in 1982, "No Room, Save in the Heart: Poetry and Prose on Reverence for Life - Animals, Nature, and Humankind" in 1987, "Since Silent Spring: Our Debt to Albert Schweitzer and Rachel Carson: An Address" in 1992.
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Membership
Ann Free was a member of the Society of Woman Geographers, the National Press Club, the American Newswomen's Club and a founding member of the Friends of the National Zoo. She was also a member of many animal and environmental organizations including, the Animal Welfare Institute, the Humane Society of the United States, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Washington Animal Rescue League, the Washington Humane Society, the Shenandoah County Humane Society and the Rachel Carson Council.
Connections
Ann Cottrell married James S. Free, the longtime Washington D.C. correspondent for the Birmingham News, in 1950. The marriage produced a daughter, Elissa Blake Free.