Katherine Meyer Graham (1917-2001), publisher of the family-owned The Washington Post, wrote her autobiography when she turned 75. One of the many whom she inspired was then 60-year-old Loida Nicolas Lewis who made it a personal goal to do the same 15 years hence. The 75th birthday, however, came around but nothing happened.
For the past 25 years, Loida spent the time going everywhere promoting Why Should All the White Guys Have All the Fun? (How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion Dollar Business Empire), the autobiography of her husband Reginald F Lewis who died in 1993 without finishing it, leaving the task to his widow.
“The book is a best-seller,” Loida tells at her well-appointed apartment in Manhattan’s Upper Eastside. It has seen several interpretations—pocketbook, e-book,
