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In 1931, Cook left her husband in Greece and brought her young son to [[Kashmir]],<ref name=":2" /> where she became a follower of [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]],<ref>{{Cite | In 1931, Cook left her husband in Greece and brought her young son to [[Kashmir]],<ref name=":2" /> where she became a follower of [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]],<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=1933-12-11|title=INDIA: INDIA Runaway Disciple|language=en-US|magazine=Time|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,746483,00.html|access-date=2020-09-17|issn=0040-781X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Kapoor|first=Pramod|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c0nTDQAAQBAJ&q=Nila+Cram+Cook&pg=PT345|title=Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography|date=2017-10-24|publisher=Running Press|isbn=978-0-316-55416-9|language=en}}</ref> converted to [[Hinduism]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=July 25, 1932|title=American Girl Accepts Hinduism|page=6|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.866/page/n5/mode/2up?q=Nila+Cram+Cook|access-date=September 17, 2020|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> and studied [[Sanskrit]], [[Hindi]], and [[Persian language|Persian]] literatures. After she left Gandhi's [[ashram]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=December 2, 1934|title='Morbid Girls Not to Gandhiji's Taste'|page=12|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.8922/page/12/mode/2up?q=Nila+Cram+Cook|access-date=September 17, 2020|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> with a shaved head and barefoot,<ref>{{Cite news|date=October 17, 1933|title=Nila Nagini Disappears|page=12|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.1160/page/12/mode/2up?q=Nila+Cram+Cook|access-date=September 17, 2020|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=October 20, 1933|title=Nila Nagini Staying at Muttra?|page=1|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.1163/mode/2up?q=Nila+Cram+Cook|access-date=September 17, 2020|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> she crashed a car,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1934-02-18|title=NEUROTIC NILA|pages=11|work=Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198234015|access-date=2020-09-18|via=[[Trove]]}}</ref> and was detained as a vagrant and hospitalized for a month in 1934, in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=January 11, 1934|title=Gandhi's Disciple Without a Home|page=1|work=Manchester Evening Herald|url=http://www.manchesterhistory.org/News/Manchester%20Evening%20Hearld_1934-01-11.pdf|access-date=September 17, 2020}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news|date=January 10, 1934|title=Nila Nagini Better|page=1|work=The Bombay Chronicle|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.1225?q=Nila+Cram+Cook|access-date=September 17, 2020|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> then deported with her son back to the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1934-01-14|title=Nila Cram Cook to Get Her Son.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/01/14/archives/nila-cram-cook-to-get-her-son.html|access-date=2020-09-17|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1934-02-14|title=BEAUTIfUL WOMAN|pages=6|work=Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1911 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143587356|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> On arrival at [[Ellis Island]], she made odd pronouncements ("delusions of grandeur", according to her brother), and news stories remarked on the "dramatic" and "hectic" scene.<ref>{{Cite news|last=McCoy|first=Homer|date=1934-03-24|title=Nila Cram Cook Returns to U. S. -- Dramatically|pages=1|work=Globe-Gazette|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5782727/nila-cram-cook-detained-on-ellis-island/|access-date=2020-09-17|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1934-03-25|title=NILA GRAM COOK AND HER SON HERE; Former Disciple of Mahatma Gandhi Talks Volubly of 'Sunshine in Athens.' BOY SENT TO ELLIS ISLAND He Later Is Released in the Custody of Uncle -- Plans for Future Obscure.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/03/25/archives/nila-gram-cook-and-her-son-here-former-disciple-of-mahatma-gandhi.html|access-date=2020-09-17|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She wrote about this part of her life in a memoir, ''My Road to India'' (1939).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cook|first=Nilla Cram|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xX01AAAAIAAJ|title=My Road to India|date=1939|publisher=L. Furman, Incorporated|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1939-09-22|title=Books of this Week|pages=19|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59516022/books-of-this-week/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> [[Mary Sully]] painted an abstract portrait titled "Nila Cram Cook" in the 1930s.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
In 1939, she became Europe correspondent for an American weekly, ''Liberty.'' She covered [[World War II]] from Greece, until she escaped Nazi detention in July 1941, and fled with her son to [[Tehran]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Weller|first=George|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38CiN8oS7YYC&q=Nila+Cram+Cook&pg=PA54|title=Weller's War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of World War II on Five Continents|date=2009-04-28|publisher=Crown|isbn=978-0-307-45224-5|pages=53–54|language=en}}</ref> She worked as a cultural attaché at the American Embassy in Tehran from 1941 to 1947. During that time, Cook converted to [[Islam]], and spent years on a personal project, editing and translating the [[Quran|Koran]] into English, with her own commentary.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|date=1982-10-13|title=Nilla Cram Cook, 74; A Writer and Linguist|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/13/obituaries/nilla-cram-cook-74-a-writer-and-linguist.html|access-date=2020-09-17|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1945-03-18|title=Nila Cram Cook Working On New Version of Koran|pages=2|work=The Des Moines Register|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59493069/nila-cram-cook-working-on-new-version/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She held a high position in Iran's Ministry of Education, oversaw film censorship,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Denato|first=Pat|date=1982-01-31|title=Notorious Ladies from Iowa's Past|pages=33|work=The Des Moines Register|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59523059/notorious-ladies-from-iowas-pastpat/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and went on radio to read her translations of poetry. She helped build national theatre,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1948-01-31|title=Davenport Girl, Nila Cook, Once Follower of Ghandhi|pages=8|work=The Des Moines Register|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59523560/davenport-girl-nila-cook-once/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ballet,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Crystal|first=Charlotte|date=1996-01-18|title=Dancing to Health|pages=32|work=Daily Press|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59500361/dancing-to-healthcharlotte-crystal/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and opera programs in Iran in the 1940s.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Cook|first=Nilla Cram|date=1949|title=The Theater and Ballet Arts of Iran|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4322114|journal=Middle East Journal|volume=3|issue=4|pages=406–420|jstor=4322114|issn=0026-3141}}</ref> She worked with a fellow American expatriate, dancer [[Xenia Zarina]], in Iran.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1948-08-04|title=UNESCO May Miss Its Dancing Girls|pages=3|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59534605/unesco-may-miss-its-dancing-girls/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> | In 1939, she became Europe correspondent for an American weekly, ''Liberty.'' She covered [[World War II]] from Greece, until she escaped Nazi detention in July 1941, and fled with her son to [[Tehran]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Weller|first=George|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38CiN8oS7YYC&q=Nila+Cram+Cook&pg=PA54|title=Weller's War: A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of World War II on Five Continents|date=2009-04-28|publisher=Crown|isbn=978-0-307-45224-5|pages=53–54|language=en}}</ref> She worked as a cultural attaché at the American Embassy in Tehran from 1941 to 1947. During that time, Cook converted to [[Islam]], and spent years on a personal project, editing and translating the [[Quran|Koran]] into English, with her own commentary.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|date=1982-10-13|title=Nilla Cram Cook, 74; A Writer and Linguist|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/13/obituaries/nilla-cram-cook-74-a-writer-and-linguist.html|access-date=2020-09-17|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1945-03-18|title=Nila Cram Cook Working On New Version of Koran|pages=2|work=The Des Moines Register|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59493069/nila-cram-cook-working-on-new-version/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She held a high position in Iran's Ministry of Education, oversaw film censorship,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Denato|first=Pat|date=1982-01-31|title=Notorious Ladies from Iowa's Past|pages=33|work=The Des Moines Register|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59523059/notorious-ladies-from-iowas-pastpat/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and went on radio to read her translations of poetry. She helped build national theatre,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1948-01-31|title=Davenport Girl, Nila Cook, Once Follower of Ghandhi|pages=8|work=The Des Moines Register|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59523560/davenport-girl-nila-cook-once/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ballet,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Crystal|first=Charlotte|date=1996-01-18|title=Dancing to Health|pages=32|work=Daily Press|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59500361/dancing-to-healthcharlotte-crystal/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and opera programs in Iran in the 1940s.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Cook|first=Nilla Cram|date=1949|title=The Theater and Ballet Arts of Iran|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4322114|journal=Middle East Journal|volume=3|issue=4|pages=406–420|jstor=4322114|issn=0026-3141}}</ref> She worked with a fellow American expatriate, dancer [[Xenia Zarina]], in Iran.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1948-08-04|title=UNESCO May Miss Its Dancing Girls|pages=3|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59534605/unesco-may-miss-its-dancing-girls/|access-date=2020-09-18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> | ||