Biography of alice steinbach

Alice C. Steinbach, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for The Baltimore Sun, whose work captured the wonder and grace of people and places around the world, died Tuesday of cancer at her Roland Park Place home.

She was 78.

In her more than two-decade career with The Baltimore Sun, Ms. Steinbach took readers into close communion with her detailed profiles of the rich and famous from the world of entertainment, literature, politics, society and the arts.

In a later career as a travel writer, her work took readers on strolls through places like the colorful back streets of Paris’ Left Bank or, as she wrote, “the impossibly crowded Uffizi art gallery” in Florence.

“Life was always an adventure for her, and when she discovered things about the world, she discovered things about herself,” said John S.

Carroll, who was editor of The Sun from 1991 to 2000. “I always admired her and her abilities.

“When I look back, she was never satisfied