Katharine Graham's WashingtonBy: Katharine Graham As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D. C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed The Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city she knew and loved, a moving tribute to the nations capital. To Russell Banks, it is a place where no one is in charge and no one, therefore, can be held responsible for the mess.