Alicia Patterson (1907 - 1963) was the founder and editor of Newsday, one of the most successful post-war newspapers in the 1940s. The daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the New York Daily News and the great-granddaughter of Joseph Medill, owner of the Chicago Tribune and mayor of Chicago, Patterson found her calling late in life when her third husband, Harry Guggenheim, wanted to keep her busy and out of trouble. She found her own niche in a family full of successful publishers. The Alicia Patterson Foundation now presents an annual prize to mid-career journalists such as herself. Patterson's nephew, Joseph Medill Patterson Albright, married former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Patterson also had a career in comics, creating the character Deathless Deer with Neysa McMein[1]. She died in New York in 1963, at age 53.
