- Lally Weymouth
Lally Weymouth (born Elizabeth Morris Graham,
July 3 ,1943 ) is an American journalist who is the senior editor of "Newsweek " magazine.She is an heir to the "
Washington Post " media fortune, whose properties include "Newsweek ".Life and career
She is the only daughter of
Katharine Graham andPhilip Graham , both of whom were publishers of the "Post". She is the sister ofDonald Graham , the Washington Post Company'schief executive officer , and the mother ofKatharine Weymouth , the newspaper's publisher. The company has owned "Newsweek" since 1961.Lally Weymouth graduated from
Radcliffe College atHarvard University with a degree in American History and Literature.She married architect Yann R. Weymouth (older brother of
Tina Weymouth , bass player for the rock bandTalking Heads ) in 1964; [cite news |title=Elizabeth Morris Graham is Married |date=1964-11-29 |publisher=New York Times |accessdate=2008-07-08] the marriage, she later said, "was horribly rash". [cite book |author=David Bowman |title=This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century |publisher= Harper Paperbacks |year= 2002 |month= November |isbn= 0060507314 |pages=10] The groom was an architect who worked forI.M. Pei in the 1960s (he was the co-architect of Pei's East Wing for theNational Gallery of Art ) and is presently the creative director of the architecture firmHellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum . The couple had two daughters, Katharine and Pamela, before divorcing in 1971.From 1968 to 1969, Weymouth worked for Senator
Robert F. Kennedy at theBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.clarifyme|post-text= (RFK died in 1968)Weymouth edited and compiled "
Thomas Jefferson : The Man, His World, His Influence" (1973, G.P. Putnam), a collection which includes contributions from leading Jeffersonian scholars. She is the author of "America in 1876, The Way We Were" (1976, Random House). She worked as a freelance journalist and contributing editor from 1977 to 1983 for such publications as "New York" magazine, "The New York Times Magazine ", "Esquire", "Atlantic Monthly ", and "Parade". From 1983 to 1986 she was a contributing editor for the "Los Angeles Times ".Once a
leftist ,Fact|date=January 2008 Weymouth dated writerAlexander Cockburn after her divorce in 1971Fact|date=January 2008 However, in the late 1980s, she became a rightist Fact|date=January 2008 and was reported to be romantically involved with right wingpundit George Will .Fact|date=January 2008She was a contributing editor at "Newsweek" from 1998 to 2001. Since 2001, as senior editor at "
Newsweek ", she regularly interviews celebrities for both "Newsweek" and the "Post".References
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