Katharine Graham biography

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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.