Patterson, Alicia { 11 images } Created 5 Jun 2018

Alicia Patterson, founder and editor of Newsday, 1958. (Pulitzer prize winning newspaper) Original prints

(October 15, 1906 – July 2, 1963) she was the founder and editor of Newsday, which became a respected and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper. With Neysa McMein, she created the Deathless Deer comic strip in 1943. John Steinbeck, Patterson's friend since 1956, wrote a series of articles in the form of "Letters to Alicia" for Newsday following her death.
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