Nixola Greeley-Smith

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Nixola Greeley-Smith

Nixola Greeley-Smith (April 5, 1880 - March 9, 1919) was an American journalist. She worked at Joseph Pulitzer's papers and developed a distinctive style to her human interest stories and interviews. She covered home front activities during World War I and was an advocate for women's suffrage.[1] She was known for securing interviews with people of high status and for her unflinching questions and willingness to address controversial subjects. Mary Heaton Vorse said, "I pity the unwary who are interviewed by Nixola Greeley-Smith."[2]

She was born in Chappaqua, New York to Colonel Nicholas Smith, a New York City lawyer and diplomat, and Ida Lillian Greeley, who died when she was two. Her grandfather was Horace Greeley.[3][4]

She married Andrew Watres Ford, a newspaper editor. They had no children and she died of acute appendicitis in 1919.[1] She is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn with other members of her family.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c James, Edward T. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. 2. Harvard University Press. p. 78. ISBN 9780674627345.
  2. ^ Fahs, Alice (30 November 2018). Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space. University of North Carolina Press. p. 118. ISBN 9780807834961.
  3. ^ McWilliams, Alvi (2000). "Greeley-Smith, Nixola (1880-1919), journalist". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1602659. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7.
  4. ^ "The Suit Goes to Trial Before Justice Mills". Westchester County Magazine. Westchester County Magazine Company. December 1911. p. 32.
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