Anne O'Hare McCormick was the first woman to serve on the editorial board of the New York Times and the first woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for journalism. She wrote a column for the Times, entitled "Abroad," that appeared three times a week. As an editorial board member, she wrote unsigned editorials twice a week in addition to her column. A foreign correspondent for the Times beginning in 1922, McCormick wrote almost exclusively for the newspaper after 1925, traveling around the world and "invading almost every head of state's office" to win an international reputation as a knowledgeable and insightful foreign correspondent.

Anne Elizabeth O'Hare was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, on 16 May 1880, the first of three daughters of Thomas J. and Teresa Beatrice Berry O'Hare. The family migrated to the United States shortly after her birth, ultimately settling in Columbus, Ohio. O'Hare was reared in a devout...