A Woman of the Times

<div> <p>For twenty-five years Charlotte Curtis was a society/women's reporter and editor and an op-ed editor at the <i>New York Times.</i> As the first woman section editor at the <i>Times</i> Curtis was a pioneering journalist and one of the first nationwide to change the nature and content of the women's pages from fluffy wedding announcements and recipes to the more newsy issue-oriented stories that characterize them today. In this riveting biography Marilyn Greenwald describes how a woman reporter from Columbus Ohio broke into the ranks of the male-dominated upper echelon at the <i>New York Times.</i> It documents what she did to succeed and what she had to sacrifice.<br> <br> Charlotte Curtis paved the way for the journalists who followed her. <i>A Woman of the Times</i> offers a chronicle of her hard-won journey as she invents her own brand of feminism during the 1960s and 1970s. In the telling of this remarkable woman's life is the story as well of a critical era in the nation's social history.</p> </div>