Born on June 18, 1913, in Patchogue, Long Island, New York, Sylvia Field Feldman graduated from Hunter College in 1932. The previous year she had married Reed Porter, a banker. She found a job as an assistant in a Wall Street investment house, and while learning firsthand the intricacies of the market in government bonds she took supplementary courses at the School of Business Administration of New York University. During 1934╨1935 she published Reporting on Governments, a pioneer weekly newsletter on the government bond market. In 1935 she began contributing a thrice-weekly financial column to the New York Post, and within a short time she was the paper╒s regular financial reporter as well.
Porter╒s column became a daily feature in 1938 under the title ╥Financial Post Marks╙ and was later syndicated to over 400 newspapers across the country. To avoid the possibility of prejudice against a woman in the traditionally male field of finance, she signed the column ╥S. F. Porter╙ for many years; later it was titled ╥S. F. Porter Says,╙ and later still simply ╥Sylvia Porter.╙ Her column went far beyond the printing of financial news items or investment tips; her investigations of various illicit or shady practices in commodities and securities markets prompted reforms on several occasions. In 1942 she received the National Headlines Club award for business reporting, and she was several times the Newspaper Women╒s Club choice for best woman columnist writing in any field. In 1978 she moved her column to the New York Daily News and it remained there until 1991. She contributed to magazines, notably the Ladies╒ Home, Journal, of which she was a contributing editor, and she published several books, including How to Make Money in Government Bonds, 1939, If War Comes to the American Home, 1941, How to Live Within Your Income, with J. K. Lasser, 1948, Managing Your Money, with J. K. Lasser, 1953, How to Get More for Your Money, 1961, Sylvia Porter╒s Money Book, 1975, Sylvia Porter╒s New Money Book for the 80╒s, 1979, Sylvia Porter's Your Finances in the 1990's, 1990, Planning Your Retirement, 1991, and from 1961 the annual Sylvia Porter╒s Income Tax Guide. In 1984 she launched Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, which quickly grew to be the third largest periodical in its field; she sold it in 1989, however, after being hit by the stock market plunge in 1987. She died on June 5, 1991, at her home in Pound Ridge, New York.
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