Nadeane Walker

Who was Nadeane Walker?

Nadeane Walker Anderson, known professionally by her maiden name, Nadeane Walker, was an American journalist, foreign correspondent and former fashion editor for the Associated Press.

Walker was born in 1921 in Canton, Texas, the second youngest child of nine children of Charles H. Walker and Wincie Sides Walker.. She graduated in 1942 from North Texas Teacher's College, which is now the present-day University of North Texas. After working at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a staff writer following college. Her editors at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram sent her to cover a story on the Women's Army Corps, the women's branch of the United States Army during World War II. The story changed Walker's career, as she enlisted in the Women's Army Corps soon after covering corps. Through WAC, Walker was posted to Europe, where she joined the staff of the The Stars and Stripes newspaper's Paris edition as a reporter in 1945.

She married her husband, Godfrey Anderson, a World War II correspondent for the Associated Press, at a ceremony in Frankfurt, Germany, on October 4, 1946. The couple lived in Germany, Belgium and Sweden before moving to Paris, France.