11 Facts About Kathleen Parker

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Kathleen Parker considers herself politically to be "mostly right of center", has been described as a "conservative-leaning columnist", and was the highest-scoring conservative pundit in a 2012 retrospective study of pundit prediction accuracy in 2008.

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Kathleen Parker was raised in Winter Haven in Polk County, Florida, daughter of lawyer John Hal Connor Jr.

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Kathleen Parker often spent summers with her mother's family in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Kathleen Parker attended Converse College before Florida State University, where she received a Bachelor's degree in 1973 followed by a Master's degree in Spanish in 1976.

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Kathleen Parker serves on the Board of Contributors for USA Todays Forum Page, part of the newspaper's Opinion section.

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Kathleen Parker is a contributor to the online magazine The Daily Beast.

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Kathleen Parker is the author of Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care.

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From fall 2010, Kathleen Parker co-hosted the cable news program Kathleen Parker Spitzer on CNN with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.

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Kathleen Parker won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for a selection of political opinion columns.

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Kathleen Parker wrote about the April 2019 arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Embassy of Ecuador, London, comparing him unfavorably to the "historic act of bravery" by Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers about American government lies in the Vietnam War.

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Kathleen Parker received over 11,000 responses, mostly from conservatives critical of her opinion.