Karen blumenthal biography

American journalist, author, and educator (1959–2020)

Karen Frances Blumenthal (March 18, 1959 – May 18, 2020) was an American business journalist, published author, and educator.

Early years

Blumenthal was born in Texas and attended Hillcrest High School before enrolling in Duke University. She got an MBA from Southern Methodist University.^[1]

Career

Blumenthal was a financial journalist for the Wall Street Journal for 25 years.

She previously worked as a bureau chief for the newspaper in Dallas,^[2] and as a reporter for the Dallas morning News.^[3]

Blumenthal wrote Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History, a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and followed Clinton through her 2016 presidential campaign; Blumenthal had to hastily rewrite the ending of the book when it became clear that Clinton had not won the election.^[4]

She taught journalism with her husband at Duke University^[5]