Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson. Self: Person to Person. Dorothy Thompson was one of the most famous journalists of the 1930s & '40s, winning the sobriquet the "First Lady of American Journalism." In 1939, Time Magazine recognized her as being on par with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in terms of her political clout. Born on July 9, 1893 in Lancaster, New York, she graduated from Syracuse University in 1914, having studied economics and political...