Wason Betty

American author and broadcast journalist; a pioneer, with such others as Mary Marvin Breckinridge and Sigrid Schultz, of female journalism in the United States. She worked for and with Edward R. Murrow during World War II, although despite her significant contributions she, along with a handful of other journalists closely associated with Murrow, were rarely recognized in the famed group of war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys. She also wrote numerous books on food and cooking from the 1940s through 1981. In 1998, at age 86, Wason wrote Macular Degeneration: Living Positively with Vision Loss, a book about the affliction which stole most of her eyesight and rendered her legally blind. She died on 13 February 2001, aged 88. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less