Sally Quinn

Sally Sterling Quinn, who celebrates her birthday on the 1st of July, was born in Savannah, Georgia, United States in 1941 as one of the three children of Lieutenant General William Wilson “Buffalo Bill” Quinn and his wife, Sara Bette Williams.

Quinn’s father worked as the infantry officer who served as an intelligence officer and had a significant role in transitioning United States’ intelligence service from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Quinn has written about how her father helped in coordinating the invasion of South France during the World War II, and how he had commanded the Seventh Army in Germany in her book Buffalo Bill Remembers.

Quinn spent most part of her life living on Connecticut Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C., where her mother’s cooking was famous. She went to the Smith College and graduated in 1963.

Quinn decided to become the third wife of her former boss at The Washington Post, Benjamin C. Bradlee, in the 20th of October, 1978. The couple had their first and only child, Quinn Bradlee in 1982.

Quinn took her first steps in journalism from The Washington Post, where she was hired, despite of her lack of experience, because Ben Bradlee was impressed with the report of her pajama party in celebration of the election to Congress of Barry Goldwater Jr.

Gradually, Quinn established herself as a reporter meant for the style section of the paper because of her skills for drawing out the subjects of her interviews and profiles. During her career, there have been many highlights, including the time when she criticized President Bill Clinton during the impeachment trial, stating that he had “fouled the nest”.

A column titled “Sally Quinn’s The Party: No ‘dueling’ Bradlee weddings, just scheduling mistake” was published by The Washington Post in the February of 2010, which distracted the public’s attention from dysfunction in Bradlee family by discussing Quinn Bradlee’s wedding, which was scheduled to be on the same day that Quinn’s husband’s granddaughter had her wedding.

Quinn wrote for the Post’s Onfaith blog until 2015.

Quinn also gave a try at Television journalism, and joined CBS News in August 1973 and was partnered with Hughes Rudd in the CBS Morning News. However, she collapsed 90 minutes before her television debut due to flu.

She departed from the news station in the 1st of February, 1974 and later wrote a book “We’re Going to Make You a Star” based on her “short, disastrous” television career which became the bestseller.

There’s no doubt that the 76-year-old has had a successful career that every one aspires to have. But maybe because of the generation gap, she hasn’t shown much interest on social media.

However, she does possess a Twitter account and has around 4800 followers. She joined Twitter on January 2010 at @sallyquinndc and has tweeted only 934 times.