Garnett Stackelberg (born 5 January 1910,
Chadron, Nebraska
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: d.12 January 2005,
Georgetown) was an American journalist and socialite.
Garnett Butler was born in Nebraska on 5 January 1910. Her father was a building contractor and her mother was a teacher. Garnett attended
Oregon State University before travelling to
Shanghai in 1932, where she worked at the US Consulate.
After surviving house arrest under the Japanese occupation, she left her first husband, and settled in Washington, D.C., where she became a successful journalist, lecturer and society hostess.
She had already started writing for the
Shanghai Evening Post
The ''Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury'' was an English language newspaper in Shanghai, China, published by the Post-Mercury Co. The newspaper represented the point of view of Shanghai's American business community.Tucker, p124 The newspaper offices ...
, and went on to contribute to the
Washington Star, the
Baltimore News-American,
Dossier magazine,
Washington Life
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Magazine, the
Palm Beach Daily News and the North American edition of
L'Officiel, covering travel and Washington, DC society events. She also gave lecture tours about her travel experiences.
Marriage and family
Garnett married twice:
* William Gardiner, a Canadian doctor whom she met and married in China (div.1945)
* Baron Constantine "Steno" von Stackelberg (d.1989), an
Estonian, based in Washington, who worked for the Dept of Commerce, FAA, and TWA, m. August 9, 1945
with whom she had one son, Charles Alexander "Sandy" von Stackelberg.
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References
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1910 births
2005 deaths
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
Writers from Nebraska
Journalists from Washington, D.C.
21st-century American women