Mary Lou Forbes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Lou Forbes

American journalist

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1926

Place of Birth: Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 27-Jun-2009

Profession: editor, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Mary Lou "Ludie" Forbes (June 21, 1926 – June 27, 2009) was an American journalist and commentator.
She spent six decades at the Washington Evening Star and The Washington Times, serving as the Times commentary editor until weeks before her death. As Mary Lou Werner she won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting (Edition Time) for her Evening Star coverage of the 1958 school integration crisis in Virginia in the aftermath of the 1954 Supreme Court of the United States decision in Brown v.
Board of Education.