Longtime girlfriend of Walter Cronkite until his death in August, 2009.
She made her debut at the New York City Opera as Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She studied opera with Marion Freschl, at the International Opera Studio directed by Herbert Graf in Zürich, and at Spoleto with Gian Carlo Menotti.
Died the day after her sister Lucy Simon (Lucy on October 20, 2022 and Joanna on October 19, 2022). Both died in New York from cancer.