Charlotte Curtis, Columnist, Editor at N.Y. Times, Dies
Charlotte Curtis, one of America’s most influential women journalists and a columnist and editor for the New York Times, died of cancer at Ohio State University in Columbus. She was 58.
Curtis, the first woman editor to appear on the paper’s masthead, died Thursday. She lived in Manhattan and Columbus.
In a career at the newspaper that spanned 25 years, Curtis’ iconoclastic treatment of what had been classified as women’s news helped transform the coverage of fashion and society news.
Curtis was put on the masthead in 1974 when she was appointed associate editor and supervised the paper’s Op-Ed page, the opinion page opposite the editorial page.
For the last four years, she wrote a weekly column of social commentary.
Curtis was married to Dr. William Hunt, chief of neurologic surgery at the College of Medicine at Ohio State University.
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