KATHARINE GRAHAM b. June 16, 1917

KATHARINE GRAHAM 

June 16, 1917-July 17, 2001 

KATHARINE ("KAY") GRAHAM 

"Legendary" Publisher (of Watergate fame especially) 

and later Chief Executive of the Washington Post 

photographed in the Post's headquarters 

Washington, D.C. 

Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Biography or 

Autobiography, 1998 

for PERSONAL HISTORY (1997) 

Citation here 

Gone almost ten years now 

A sampling of the (rival) New York Times' obituary: 

Mrs. Graham was a socialite mother of four when her husband, Philip L. Graham, committed suicide in 1963. Her father had given Mr. Graham control of The Post and when the latter died, his widow found herself in a mysterious thicket of corporate politics dominated by men unaccustomed to a woman in the boardroom and highly skeptical of her ability to run a newspaper. 

Much more from the New York Times here 

Some appreciations from the Washington Post here 

And from NPR here 

With a bit from Ben Bradlee here 

And one obituary from the other side of the pond here