Katharine Graham
American newspaper publisher
Katharine Graham was an American publisher who led The Washington Post through its Watergate coverage. Her memoir Personal History won a Pulitzer Prize.
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American Born 1917 in New York City, United States Died 2001
About Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham was born in 1917 and died in 2001. She began leading The Washington Post, her family's newspaper, in 1963. Under her, the paper covered the Watergate scandal, which ended with Richard Nixon resigning as president. She was among the early women to hold a publisher's post at a large US daily in the 20th century, and the Associated Press board was the first to vote a woman onto its ranks when it chose her. Personal History, her memoir, received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize.