Known as the “Grand Dame of Dish,” Smith began her journalism career as a CBS Radio news producer for Mike Wallace before starting as a ghostwriter for the Hearst gossip column Cholly Knickerbocker in the late 1950s._____
She moved on to work for Cosmopolitan and Sports Illustrated in the ‘60s, then began a self-titled column at the New York Daily News in 1976.
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Obituary: Gossip columnist Liz Smith, 94, has died:
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