Dorothy Thompson (9 July 1893, Lancaster, New York – January 30, 1961, Portugal) was an American journalist, who was noted by Time magazine in 1939 as one of the two most influential women in America, the other being Eleanor Roosevelt.
She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany (in 1934), and as the inspiration for Katharine Hepburn's character "Tess Harding" in the film Woman of the Year (1942).
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Dorothy Thompson (9 July 1893, Lancaster, New York – January 30, 1961, Portugal) was an American journalist, who was noted by Time magazine in 1939 as one of the two most influential women in America, the other being Eleanor Roosevelt.
She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany (in 1934), and as the inspiration for Katharine Hepburn's character "Tess Harding" in the film Woman of the Year (1942).
Dorothy Thompson's father was an English-born Methodist preacher Her mother died when Dorothy was quite young and when her father remarried, Dorothy went to live with an aunt in Chicago. She attended Syracuse University where she studied politics and economics, and shortly afterwards became involved in women's suffrage. On a trip to Europe shortly after the end of World War I, she met a group of Zionists and her first journalism assignment was reporting on their meetings for the International News Service.
Thompson focused her attention on Central Europe...
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