Flora Lewis (25 July 1922 – May 26, 2002) was an American journalist. Lewis was born into a Jewish family in Los Angeles. Her father Benjamin Lewis was a lawyer and mother Pauline Kallin a pianist. She graduated high school at the age of 15 and earned a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles graduating summa cum laude three years later. She was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received her master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism in 1942 just before turning 20.

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