When it came to a stop, Éve Curie, the first Western reporter to reach the battlefield, emerged and carefully picked her way forward to avoid land mines, in order to inspect German tanks standing still in their tracks. Near the small Russian village of Mozhaisk, the temperature was 47° below zero as a car crept across the snowswept landscape amid gunfire and bursting shells. Publications: Madame Curie (Doubleday, 1939) Journey Among Warriors (Doubleday, 1943). (1939–49) served as special adviser to the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1952–54) posted in Beirut, Caracas, and other cities with her husband. Had brief career as a concert pianist, then writer and critic of music, movies, and books for several French newspapers and journals wrote biography of her mother, which won the American National Book Award for nonfiction (1937) awarded the Polonia Restitua and Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur for the book (1939) forced from France by the Nazi invasion, joining the Free French in London (1940) began travel as a journalist to Allied battlefields around the world (1941) published widely acclaimed writings from the military front (1943) awarded the croix de guerre for her wartime service to France (1944) was co-publisher of Paris-Presse (1945–49) made seven lecture tours to the U.S.
Born Éve Denise Curie in Paris, France, on Decemdaughter of Pierre and Marie (Sklodowska) Curie, both Nobel Prize-winning scientists sister of Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956) received education by childhood governesses and a private school established by her mother for children of Sorbonne professors graduated from Collège Sevigné married Henry Labouisse (an American diplomat), on Novemno children. French journalist who traveled more than 40,000 miles covering Allied action during World War II and wrote a prize-winning biography of her mother, famed scientist Marie Curie.
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