15 Facts About Alicia Patterson

Alicia Patterson was an American journalist, the founder and editor of Newsday.

Alicia Patterson's sisters were Elinor and Josephine Medill Alicia Patterson Albright.

Alicia Patterson returned to the publishing world in 1910, as editor of the Chicago Tribune.

Alicia Patterson sent Patterson to Germany to live with a family and learn German when she was four years old.

Alicia Patterson attended the Francis Parker School and University School for Girls in Chicago.

Alicia Patterson was then sent to finishing schools in Maryland and Lausanne, Switzerland, from which she was expelled for violating the rules.

Alicia Patterson attended the Foxcroft School in Virginia, where she finished second in her class, and was then sent to a school in Rome where she was expelled for behavior issues.

Alicia Patterson worked in the promotion department of her father's Daily News in 1927, before being assigned as a reporter.

Alicia Patterson socialized with other young reporters at speakeasies and misspelled the names of the parties involved in a high-profile divorce case, for which the newspaper was sued for libel.

Alicia Patterson returned to Chicago after she was fired, then married Harry Frank Guggenheim, who was Jewish.

Alicia Patterson had a career in comics, creating the character Deathless Deer with Neysa McMein.

Alicia Patterson used the paper as a vehicle to create an identity for Long Island.

Alicia Patterson died aged 56, of complications following stomach surgery for an ulcer, on July 2,1963.

Alicia Patterson's ashes are interred at her hunting lodge in Kingsland, Georgia.

The Alicia Patterson Foundation, created in accordance with her will, presents an annual prize to mid-career journalists.