Barbara Walters Biography

Fast Facts

• Father founded and owned the famous Latin Quarter nightclubs in New York and Miami
• Dated lawyer Roy Cohn, aide to Sen
• Joseph McCarthy, in the early 1950s
• The two maintained a friendship until Cohn's death in 1986
• In 1976, became the first woman to anchor a network evening newscast, earning an unprecedented $1 million a year to co-anchor (with Harry Reasoner) ABC Evening News
• Received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2000
• Left the long-running news magazine 20/20 to concentrate on her morning talk show, The View, in 2004
• Published Audition: A Memoir in 2008