Marguerite Higgins | |
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 Photo from October 1951 Life magazine article by Carl Mydans | |
| Born | September 3, 1920 |
| Died | January 3, 1966 (aged 45) Washington, D.C., US |
| Burial place | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Occupation(s) | reporter and war correspondent |
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Marguerite Higgins Hall (September 3, 1920 – January 3, 1966) was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in the process advanced the cause of equal access for female war correspondents.[1] She had a long career with the New York Herald Tribune (1942–1963) and as a syndicated columnist for Newsday (1963–1965). She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence awarded in 1951 for her coverage of the Korean War. She subsequently won Long Island University's George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting for articles from behind enemy lines in Korea and other nations in 1952.
- ^ Michaelis, Colonel J.H. "Mike" (September 25, 1950). "Pride of the Regiment". TIME. Archived from the original on May 16, 2011. Retrieved September 11, 2008.