Liz Smith

Liz Smith calls herself “the 2,000-year-old gossip columnist.” She has worked in show business since arriving in Manhattan from the University of Texas journalism school in 1949. During the 1950s, she was a CBS Radio producer for Mike Wallace and was an NBC-TV producer. Later, she went on camera at NBC and won an Emmy for reporting from the battleship Intrepid on the 40^th anniversary of World War II.

Smith has written for seven different New York City newspapers and most magazines. In her best-selling memoir, Natural Blonde, she wrote about being a war bride. She now appears on Fox News and in 70 newspapers.