Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a columnist for The New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

She was born in Washington D.C. the youngest of five children in a Catholic family where her father worked as a police officer.

After graduating in 1973 with a B.A. in English Literature from Catholic University in Washington, DC she began working as a secretary at the Washington Star, and was later promoted to reporter. In 1981 when the newspaper went out of business she took a job at Time magazine. After two years there she left and began working at The New York Times initially as a metropolitan reporter.

In 1995 she took the place of Anna Quindlen who went to work at Newsweek, and both sometimes write on feminist issues. She is generally considered a liberal and an opponent of President George W. Bush, although she has also been critical of Bill Clinton.

She is the author of the 2004 book Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk.

Partial bibliography

• Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (Putnam, 2004) ISBN 039915258X

External links

• New York Times columns (http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/maureendowd/) with free access to the latest two.