Katharine Graham

Journalist

Birthday June 16, 1917

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace New York

DEATH DATE Jul 17, 2001 (84)

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About

American publisher who ran The Washington Post for more than twenty years and oversaw the coverage of the Watergate scandal.

Before Fame

She attended Vassar College and later transferred to the University of Chicago. Her family bought the Post in 1933, and she began working there in 1938.

Trivia

Her memoir, Personal History, was published in 1997 and she won a Pulitzer Prize for it.

Family Life

She was married to Philip Graham from 1940 to 1963, and they had four children.

Associated With

She was a longtime personal friend of entrepreneur Warren Buffett.