Journalist Nona Baldwin Brown was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the daughter of Allen Thomas and Helen Pugh (Smitheman) Baldwin. She graduated from Montclair High School (1935), Vassar College (A.B. 1939), and Columbia University (M.S. in journalism and Pulitzer fellow, 1940). She worked for the New York Times as a city reporter and a Washington correspondent (1940-1942, 1946-1973), and as a free lance writer and editor (1973- ). During the war she served as a press officer in the United States Naval Reserve (1942-1945). She married Clinton B.D. Brown in 1944.
From the description of Papers, 1918-1998 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122408178