Nationality American Name Judith Sulzberger | Died February 21, 2011 Books Younger | |
Born December 27, 1923
New York City, New York, U.S. ( 1923-12-27 ) Fields Medicine, pathology, public health, genome, autism, Asperger syndrome, malaria Institutions Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
The New York Times
The East Hampton Star
Wildlife Conservation Society
Rainforest Alliance
Pasteur Foundation New York of Pasteur Institute
Grasslands Hospital
Weill Cornell Medical College
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alma mater Smith College of Northampton, Massachusetts
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Spouse Matthew Rosenschein Jr. (m.1946–1956) (divorced) 2 children
Richard N. Cohen (m.1958–1972) (divorced)
Budd Levinson (m.1972–1984) (divorced)
Budd Levinson (remarried ?-2011; her death) Children Daniel Cohen
James Cohen Education Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Smith College | ||
Judith Peixotto Sulzberger (December 27, 1923 – February 21, 2011) was an American physician and philanthropist. Her family has been associated with The New York Times since her grandfather, Adolph Ochs purchased the paper in 1896.
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Early life and childhood
Sulzberger was one of four children of Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891–1968) and Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (1892–1990). Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961.
Education
She graduated from Smith College in 1946, and from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1949. Her internship was in pathology at Grasslands Hospital of Valhalla, New York.
Career
She was a director of The New York Times from 1974 to 2000. She authored a book Younger (2003). In the early 1990s, she provided financing for what became the J. P. Sulzberger Genome Center at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, her alma mater.
Death
She died at age 87 from pancreatic cancer in her native New York City.