Katharine Graham

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Katharine Graham (1975)

Katharine "Kay" Graham (born June 16, 1917 in New York City , New York as Katharine Meyer , † July 17, 2001 in Boise , Idaho ) was an American publisher , editor and author .

Life

Katharine Meyer was born the fourth of five children of reporter Agnes E. Meyer and entrepreneur Eugene Meyer ; she grew up in New York and Washington. She began studying at Vassar College and then moved to the University of Chicago . She then worked as a reporter for the San Francisco News , before starting that same year for her father's newspaper, the Washington Post . In 1940 she married their future co-editor and media entrepreneur Philip Graham . The marriage had four children.

After her husband's suicide in 1963, Katharine Graham ran the Washington Post Company for nearly 35 years . From 1973 to 1991 she was chairwoman of the board of directors and from 1993 until her death in 2001 she was chairwoman of the company's board of directors. In the years from 1969 to 1979, in the u. a. When the Watergate Affair was exposed, she was the editor of the Washington Post. Her son Donald Graham succeeded her.

Graham's grave next to Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel , Washington (far left)

Katharine Graham died at the age of 84 a few days after a fall from its consequences and was buried next to her husband in Washington DC in the historic Oak Hill Cemetery .

In the 2017 film The Publisher by Steven Spielberg , she is played by Meryl Streep .

Honors

In 1988 Graham was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1997 she received the Four Freedoms Award . In the same year published her autobiography Graham Personal History (German title:. We print! ), For which it 1998 Pulitzer Prize awarded. In 2002 Katharine Graham was posthumously honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom .

literature

  • Katharine Graham: Personal History . Knopf, New York 1997, ISBN 0-394-58585-2 .
    • We press! The head of the Washington Post tells the story of her life . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-61199-6 ; New edition 2018 under the title The publisher: How the head of the Washington Post changed America (translation: Henning Thies). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-63414-7 .

Web links

Commons : Katharine Graham  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Extensive biography in the Washington Post 2001 obituary : JY Smith and Noel Epstein: Katharine Graham Dies at 84 . Washington Post, July 18, 2001 (accessed February 19, 2018)
  2. ^ Francis X. Clines: At Katharine Graham Funeral, Parade of Boldface Names . In: The New York Times , July 24, 2001 (accessed February 19, 2018)
  3. ^ The 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winners - Biography or Autobiography . On: pulitzer.org. Retrieved April 11, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Graham, Katharine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Katharine; Graham, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publisher, editor, and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2001
Place of death Boise , Idaho, United States