I have a travel grant to go through Molly’s papers at the University of Texas. In the WPCF oral history project, Molly said the following about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry: “Vivian had a remarkable sensitivity to news that women wanted to know and how that news should be covered by women, for women.” I plan to go through Molly’s papers this Spring.

I just found a great profile written about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry in 1996. (Colleen O’Connor, “Vivian Castleberry,” Dallas Morning News, May 12, 1996.) It includes a quote from Molly Ivins: “What Viv was doing on the women’s pages in those years was somewhat subversive. The first treatment of major issues like abortion were on Viv’s pages. Because the male editors in that sexist era paid so little attention to the women’s page, Viv was quietly going about doing remarkable stories that belonged on the front page.” I am working on a book about Vivian. (I visited with Vivian last summer in her home in Dallas.) I am…