Georgie Ann Geyer was born in Chicago on April 2, 1935, the daughter of Robert George and Georgie Hazel Gervens Geyer. As a child, she was fascinated with books and composed her first "novel" at age 10. She graduated from high school with highest honors and at age 16 entered Northwestern University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in journalism in 1956 and spent a junior-year semester at Mexico City College. She conducted post-graduate studies in history as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Vienna in Austria from 1956 to 1957.
At a time when the journalism profession was dominated by men, her talent, intellect, and determination brought her to prominence as a stellar foreign correspondent. Her first position was in 1958 as a reporter for Chicago's Southtown Economist. The next year she became society reporter for the Chicago Daily News, where her newsworthy society articles from the United Nations resulted in a position as a general assignment reporter. The fascination she developed with Latin America grew when she received a Seymour Berkson Foreign Assignment Grant to Latin America in 1964 and for six months she filed regular articles to the Daily News from Peru. That year she was named roving foreign correspondent and until 1975 filed articles from Latin America, the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Vietnam, and elsewhere in the Far East and in Europe.
As a consumer of punditry, I am free to choose what I read...and I choose to avoid Ms. Geyer.