Marjorie Williams

Marjorie Williams (1958-January 16, 2005) was born in Princeton, New Jersey to a scientist-turned-homemaker mother and a father who was a powerful book editor at Viking Press. After attending Harvard for two years, Williams dropped out in her junior year and moved to New York to work as an assistant to editor Joni Evans. Williams had a flair for the business but preferred to go into journalism, and in 1986 got a job as a reporter for the Washington Post. Williams was an immediate success at the Post and eventually branched out to Vanity Fair, covering everyone from Bill Clinton to Barbara Bush to Colin Powell as well as penning profiles of her own struggles and foibles. In 2001 she was diagnosed with liver cancer; in spite of being told she only had a few months left, Williams lived for over 3 years. Her final column, written in November 2004, focused on her young daughter's Halloween costume, as Williams knew that she would never get to see her daughter grow up.

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1958 - January 16 - 2005 - Princeton, New Jersey - Viking Press - Harvard - New York - Joni Evans - 1986 - Washington Post - Vanity Fair - Bill Clinton - Barbara Bush - Colin Powell - 2001 - Liver cancer - November 2004 - Halloween

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Williams passed away January 16, 2005 in her Takoma Park home. She was survived by her stepmother, 3 sisters, her husband Timothy Noah (a columnist for Slate magazine), and her children Will and Alice.

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Takoma Park - Timothy Noah - Slate

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