Meg Greenfield

Meg Greenfield  link Keywiki (Writer)
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Born	Mary Ellen Greenfield December 27, 1930 Seattle, Washington (state),USA
Died	May 13, 1999 Georgetown, Washington DC,USA
Cause of death	cancer
Nationality	US
Ethnicity	Jewish
Alma mater	The Bush School,Smith College,Cambridge University
Interests	Norman Podhoretz
US columnist who who worked for the Washington Post and Newsweek', and attended the 1978 and 1982 Bilderbergs.

Mary Ellen Greenfield, known as Meg Greenfield, was an American editorial writer who worked for the Washington Post and Newsweek. She attended the 1978 and 1982 Bilderbergs.

Background

Greenfield was born in Seattle, the daughter of Lorraine (Nathan) and Lewis James Greenfield. Her family was Jewish.

From 1954 until her death in 1999, she was married to James Greenfield.

Education

She attended The Bush School and graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in 1952. She also studied at Cambridge University as a Fulbright Scholar and was friends there with Norman Podhoretz, one of the founding fathers of the neoconservative movement, who also went on to a career in journalism.

Career

She became influential in a male-dominated world and a close confidante of Post publisher Katharine Graham. She spent 20 years as the editorial page editor for The Washington Post and 25 years as a columnist for Newsweek. She influenced generations of Washington Post writers.

Greenfield also wielded influence in the elite dining rooms of Georgetown, where she lived near the home of her employer, who was also among her closest friends, Katharine Graham, the chairwoman of the executive committee of the Washington Post Company, which owns both The Post and Newsweek. She was also close to Graham's son, Donald, who was the company's chairman and chief executive as well as The Post's publisher. Her friends and confidants were many, including Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Alice M. Rivlin.

When diagnosed with cancer, Greenfield partly retired to Bainbridge Island in her native Washington, where she wrote a posthumously published memoir entitled Washington. She died of the disease, at age 68.

Greenfield won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.