Virginia Kraft Payson


Virginia Kraft Payson was an American horse breeder, big-game hunter, and journalist who wrote for Sports Illustrated from its first issue for 26 years. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Siena College.
Although Kraft always wrote under her maiden name; her married name came from her husband, Charles Shipman Payson, from whom she inherited $70 million dollars upon his death.

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