Katharine Graham Biography

Katharine Graham biography

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NAME: Katharine Graham
OCCUPATION: Business Leader, Publisher, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: July 16, 1917
DEATH DATE: July 17, 2001
EDUCATION: Vassar College, University of Chicago

PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
PLACE OF DEATH: Boise, Idaho
Originally: Katharine Meyer

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Katharine Graham was an owner and publisher of news publications. Her best-selling autobiography, Personal History, earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1997.

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Katharine Graham was born July 16, 1917 in New York City. The daughter of the publisher of The Washington Post, In 1940, she married Philip Graham, who later became the Post's publisher. The Grahams acquired the paper 1948. After her husband's suicide in 1963, she stepped in as head of the Washington Post Co. (which had purchased Newsweek in 1961). Her autobiography earned a Pulitzer in 1997.