[1] Stephenson also served as the press secretary and the biographer of Senator Robert Samuel Kerr.
[3] Her family relocated to Hugo, Oklahoma where her father, Robert E. Stephenson, practiced law.
[3] She then obtained a master's degree in journalism at the University of Oklahoma before working as a feature writer for the Tulsa World.
After Kerr died in 1963, Stephenson resumed her work as a journalist and became part of the female political columnist team that produced Washington Offbeat.
Some of her noted works were written with Vera Glaser and these included reports about Clark Mollenhoff, a special counsel to Nixon's White House, and his collection of the 250 names of State Department employees who criticized Nixon's policies during the Vietnam War.