Liz Smith (born February 2, 1923 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a popular gossip columnist. She worked as a typist, a proofreader and a reporter before she broke into the New York media world as a news producer for Mike Wallace at CBS Radio. She has written a gossip column for the New York Daily News, Newsday, and is currently in the pages of the New York Post. A syndicated columnist, Smith is rumored to be the highest-paid woman in print journalism. In 1995 Smith won an Emmy for her reporting. In 2000 her memoir, Natural Blonde, was published.