Harriet Van Horne

Harriet Van Horne (May 17, 1920 – January 15, 1998) was an American newspaper columnist and film/television critic. She was a writer for many years at the New York World-Telegram and its successors.

Van Horne was born in Syracuse, New York, graduated from Newark, N.Y. High School and from the College for Women of the University of Rochester in 1940.

During the 1940s and 1950s, she appeared frequently on television as a celebrity panelist. Van Horne was a regular on NBC's popular series Leave It to the Girls from 1949 to 1954. She was also a regular on the DuMont Television Network's quiz show What's the Story from 1952 to 1955.

She was a syndicated columnist appearing in the New York Post and other newspapers around the country. In 1960 she covered the Nixon-Kennedy debates as a television critic for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. Her work landed her on the master list of Nixon political opponents.

Van Horne was also a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1958 to 1967.