Nan Robertson

Background

Robertson, Nan was born on July 11, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Frank and Eva (Morrish) Robertson.

Education

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Robertson attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of Alpha Phi sorority until she graduated in 1948.

Career

She traveled to Europe and was a reporter for Stars and Stripes in Germany (1948-1949) and a fashion publicist in Paris (1950). From 1951 to 1953, she was a correspondent in Germany for the Milwaukee Journal and a feature writer and columnist — based in Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt and London — for the New York Herald Tribune from 1952 to 1953. Robertson also reported for the London American Daily from 1953 to 1954.

Robertson joined the staff of The New York Times in 1955, beginning as a general assignment reporter for the city desk and women"s news.

From 1963 to 1972, Robertson was a Washington correspondent, focusing on the White House, Congress, presidential campaigns and voting and campus political trends across the United States. From 1972 to 1975, she was based in Paris, covering France, neighboring countries and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

From 1975 to 1982, Robertson reported for the Living and Style sections. She formally retired from the Times in 1988 (serving her last five years as a reporter on the cultural news desk), but continued to write for the paper until 1996.

In 1994, Robertson became the first Eugene L. Roberts Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

She died in Rockville, Maryland at the age of 83.

Achievements

• Nan Robertson has been listed as a noteworthy Journalist, correspondent by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and The New York Times

    ("Women's struggle for equal work and equal pay at the new...)

  • Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous

    (A.A. is the most successful self-help movement in history...)

  • Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous

    (A.A. is the most successful self-help movement in history...)

  • The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times Hardcover - February 4, 1992
  • (The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times) Author: Nan Robertson published on (January, 2001)
  • Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous by Robertson, Nan (2000) Paperback
  • Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous Paperback - December 6, 2000
  • The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and The New York Times Paperback - January 5, 2001
  • The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and The New York Times by Robertson, Nan (2001) Paperback

Connections

Married Allyn Baum, February 24, 1950 (divorced 1961). Married Stanley Levey, August 27, 1961 (deceased 1971). Married William Warfield Ross (deceased 2006).

5 stepchildren.

Father:

Frank Robertson

Mother:

Eva (Morrish) Robertson

Spouse:

Allyn Baum

Spouse:

William Warfield Ross

Spouse:

Stanley Levey