Ellen Louise Graham (born December 30, 1943) was an American journalist and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She was a writer and editor at the The Wall Street Journal from 1971 to 1998. After her retirement, she wrote columns for the Wall Street Journal on the challenges that come with retirement.[1] She died on October 20, 2025 in Williamsburg, Virginia.[2]
Graham was born on December 30. 1943 in Glendale, California. Graham moved to Maryland during her teenage years where she graduated Bladensburg High School in 1961. At Bladensburg, she was regularly part of a high school youth series "The Teens Want to Know" where students talked to politicians and other public figures.
Education
In 1961-1962 Graham attended Syracuse University. She had no plans to pursue journalism in college until a professor read Graham's papers aloud to other students. She transferred to the University of Maryland in 1965 and graduated with a degree in English Literature and Philosophy in 1968. She received her master's degree in journalismm at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1970.
In 1972 at the Wall Street Journalshe received a Front Page Award for best feature of general interest for the story "A Good Death".[3] Graham, along with the WSJ's Chris Adams [4] and Michael Moss, were 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalists in National Reporting. They were nominated for "their reporting on the pitfalls faced by elderly Americans housed in commercial long-term facilities."[5]
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