Anne Cabot Wyman grew up in a Boston blueblood family but has led anything but a sheltered life. After losing her mother to Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 13, she was raised from a distance by her father, who instilled in her a taste for adventures both geographic and intellectual. She became a licensed pilot and, like her father, an accomplished painter. Anne worked for 30 years at the Boston Globe, where she was the paper’s first in-house travel writer, visiting more than 40 countries in the course of just five years. She went on to become the Globe’s chief editorialist during Boston’s tumultuous battle over school busing, and in 1975 the paper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the issue. Five years later, she and two colleagues were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing. She now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Honors and Awards:

Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, 1975 (awarded to The Boston Globe, of which Anne was chief editorialist)

Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, 1980 (finalist)

Alumnae Association Award, The Baldwin School, 1980 (for editorials supporting racial integration in Boston's public schools)