Katharine Graham

Katharine Graham (1917-2001), full name Katharine Meyer Graham, was a US newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was the first 20th century female publisher of a major American newspaper. Graham's memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

Wisdom & Quotes

• So few grown women like their lives.

- quoted by Jane Howard, Ms , October 1974

Gwendolyn Brooks

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