Dorothy Thompson (9 July 1893 – 30 January 1961) was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt. She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and as one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. Many fondly referred to her as the “First Lady of American Journalism.”
She was married three times, most famously to second husband and Nobel Prize in literature winner Sinclair Lewis. Thompson married Sinclair Lewis in 1928 and acquired a house in Vermont. They had one son, Michael Lewis, born in 1930. The couple divorced in 1942. In 1923 she married her first husband, Hungarian Joseph Bard; they divorced in 1927 She married her third husband, the artist Maxim Kopf, in 1945, and they were married until Kopf's death in 1958.
Read more about Dorothy Thompson: Early Life, Freelance Writing, Reporting From Germany, At The New York Tribune, Radio Career, Herschel Grynszpan Affair, Later Career, Depictions in Popular Culture, Works
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“Long as there’s lunch counters, you can always find work.”
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A mighty mother turns in tears
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