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Profile of Maureen Dowd
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Maureen Dowd |
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14th January 1952 |
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Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a liberal columnist for The New York Times and an author. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Dowd was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest of five children in a Catholic family where her father worked as a police officer.
In 1973, Dowd received a B.A. in English Literature from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. After graduating, she began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for the Washington Star where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter, and feature writer. When the newspaper closed in 1981, she went to work at Time magazine. In 1983, she joined The New York Times, initially as a metropolitan reporter. She began serving as correspondent in The Times Washington bureau in 1986. In 1991, Ms. Dowd received a Breakthrough Award from Columbia University. In 1992, she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting, and in 1994 she won a Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications. In 1995, Dowd replaced opinion columnist Anna Quindlen, who went to work at Newsweek magazine. Dowd was named a Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine in 1996. In 2000, she won the Damon Runyon award for outstanding contributions to journalism.
Dowd's columns are distinguished by their witty, incisive, acerbic style. Her targets are usually powerful figures such as President George W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton. Her columns often display a marked irreverence. For example, she usually refers to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as "Rummy." She is allegedly close to New York Times conservative opinion writer William Safire.
Dowd's critics, especially James Taranto, have often accused her of editing quotes and adding ellipses so as to change the quotes' intended meanings; the word "dowdify" has been coined to describe this alleged habit. The word has been used as parlance among conservative journalists and bloggers to describe any wilful misinterpretation of a quote.
Dowd is the author of the 2004 book Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk.
Dowd's new book, Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide, will be published in November 2005.
Partial bibliography
- Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (Putnam, 2004) ISBN 039915258X
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