Betty Wason, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Betty Wason

American journalist

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1912

Date of Death: 13-Feb-2001

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Elizabeth Wason (March 6, 1912 – February 13, 2001) was an American author and broadcast journalist; a pioneer, with such others as Mary Marvin Breckinridge and Sigrid Schultz, of female journalism in the United States.
She worked for and with Edward R.
Murrow during World War II, although despite her significant contributions she, along with a handful of other journalists closely associated with Murrow, were rarely recognized in the famed group of war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys.
She also wrote numerous books on food and cooking from the 1940s through 1981.