Hazel Brannon Smith at her typewriter
Hazel Brannon Smith (1914-1994) was born at Duck Springs in Etowah County, and she graduated from Gadsden High School in 1930 at age 16. She owned four Mississippi weekly newspapers during the 1950s and 1960s and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964, the first woman to win the prize for editorial writing....
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| Summary: | Hazel Brannon Smith (1914-1994) was born at Duck Springs in Etowah County, and she graduated from Gadsden High School in 1930 at age 16. She owned four Mississippi weekly newspapers during the 1950s and 1960s and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964, the first woman to win the prize for editorial writing. In 1986 she returned to Gadsden, to live with her sister. She died on May 15, 1994 at a Cleveland, Tennessee nursing home and is buried in Forrest Cemetery in Gadsden, Ala. |
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