Advertisement |
Our hope to spread the word of peace is to rely on dictators
Iraq Press Roundup Nov 14, 2007
The future of our freedom depends on suppression of other people's freedom
Iraq Press Roundup Nov 14, 2007
If we're really in a national emergency, couldn't the president call America's software geniuses and tell them to wire up the FBI this week
Commentary: Fiddling while U.S. burns Jun 10, 2002
The current risk of anthrax among employees and visitors to the building is extremely low
U.S. newspapers editorialize on anthrax Oct 10, 2001
Maureen Bridgid Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times and best-selling author. During the 1970s and the early 1980s, she worked for Time magazine and the Washington Star, where she covered news as well as sports and wrote feature articles. Dowd joined the Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter and eventually became an Op-Ed writer for the newspaper in 1995. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Clinton administration.
Dowd was born the youngest of five children in Washington, D.C. Her father, Mike, worked as a D.C. police inspector while her mother, Peggy, was a homemaker. In 1973, Dowd received a B.A. in English from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
Dowd 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. 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.