Nearly 17 years after her death, former WashingtonPost President and Publisher Katharine Graham is making headlines once again due to the Oscar-nominated movie thepostmovie. A decade after The Post had grown into a national paper through its coverage of the Vietnam War’s Pentagon Papers and the Nixon administration Watergate scandal, Miami alumna Evelyn Small ’70 went to work at The Washington Post Co. as a researcher and writer. Small had been working at The Post for only a few months when Mrs. Graham called her into her office and shared with her that friends and colleagues wanted her to write a memoir. Not being a writer and never having kept a diary or journal, she didn’t know where to begin. There were some old papers in boxes at her house, and she asked Small to have a look. For 14 years, Small worked on the book with Mrs. Graham — she was always “Mrs. Graham” to Ev, despite her invitation that Ev call her Kay — while continuing as senior researcher for The Washington Post Co....