Katharine seelye biography

Before joining The Times, she was a political reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and covered the statehouse in Albany, N.Y. She received her Bachelors degree from Lake Forest College, M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and a fellowship from Columbia to work with The Associated Press in East Africa.
Katharine Q. Seelye, an obituary writer, was a reporter for The Times for 28 years.
Seelye graduated from Amherst College in 1984.

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Katharine Q. Seelye

“Katharine Q. Seelye has covered national news and politics for The New York Times since 1994. She has served since 2012 as the paper’s New England bureau chief, based in Boston. While she grew up outside of Philadelphia, she loves living in New England — her mother’s family is from Belfast, Me. She has covered some of the region’s defining events, including the opioid epidemic, the Whitey Bulger trial, the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath and, of course, the record snowfall in the winter of 2015, when she managed to quote James Joyce. She hopes that on her watch, the mystery of the 1990 heist of valuable art works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — the world’s biggest art theft — will be solved. Before moving to Boston, Ms. Seelye worked in the Washington bureau for 12 years and covered multiple beats, from Congress to the White House, and she slogged along “on the bus” on six presidential campaigns. She pioneered The Times’s online coverage of politics, and in 2007 became the paper’s first online political writer.” She now has told the stor

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Catherine Seelye Papers

Collection

Identifier: 1998-0211

Scope and Content

The collection consists of the supporting material gathered and generated by Catherine Seelye while preparing Charles Olson's reflections on Ezra Pound for publication. The bulk of material dates from 1973-1976. It includes Seelye's correspondence with prominent literary figures such as Donald Allen, Charles Boer, Edward Dahlberg, Robert Duncan, Donald Gallup, James Laughlin. Other correspondents include Pound's son, Omar Pound, and Olson's widow, Constance (Olson) Bunker. Copies of Olson's work and correspondence are also included, the originals of which are in the Charles Olson Papers at the University of Connecticut. The inclusive dates for the collection reflect the dating of the originals.

Throughout the collection there is an ongoing discussion of copyright and libel concerns. Professional ethics in the archival and publishing fields is also addressed. Particularly notable is John Seelye's correspondence (Series I: Correspondence) proposing the project

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News and Events

The obituary details Rosalynn’s life, her marriage to President Jimmy Carter, their climb up the political ladder from the Georgia State Senate to the White House, and their wide-reaching activism work afterward.

Now based in Boston, Seelye has worked as a reporter for The New York Times for 28 years. She served as the New England bureau chief for 10 years and has covered national news and politics since starting at the paper. Additionally, she initiated and led the newspaper’s online coverage of politics and became their first online political writer in 2007.

For six presidential campaigns, she rode along on the media bus. A recognized journalist, she has reported on many notable events in the New England area, including the opioid epidemic and the Boston Marathon bombing.

While at Lake Forest College working toward her English degree, Seelye was part of the Stentor, the College’s student newspaper. One of the oldest organizations on campus, the first issue was published during the 1886-87 academic year.

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