Caro Crawford Brown

Caro Crawford Brown (May 25, 1908 – August 5, 2001) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist.

Biography Caro Crawford was born in Baber, Angelina County, Texas in 1908. Her family moved to Beaumont when she was 15, and she studied journalism at the College of Industrial Arts and Sciences (now Texas Woman's University). When her education was interrupted by the start of the Great Depression in 1929, she took a job in Conroe. There she met Jack L. Brown, whom she married. The couple moved to Duval County.

Caro Brown began working for the Alice Daily Echo in 1947, initially as a proofreader, and for a series of local political campaigns which turned violent in 1952.

Though George B. Parr was not convicted for corruption, the exposure of his political machine greatly limited his influence and eventually led to a fall from power.

Caro Crawford Brown retired from journalism shortly after winning the Pulitzer. She died in Boerne, Texas in 2001 at age 93.

Honors Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time, 1955 Theta Sigma Phi honor society, 1955 Texas Women's Hall of Fame, 1986 Texas Newspaper Hall of Fame, 2016