Maureen Brigid Dowd is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.
20 Facts About Maureen Dowd
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Maureen Dowd joined The New York Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter, and became an op-ed writer in 1995.
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Maureen Dowd was born the youngest of five children in Washington, DC.
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Maureen Dowd's mother, Margaret "Peggy", was a housewife, and her father, Mike Dowd, worked as a Washington, DC, police inspector.
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Maureen Dowd entered journalism in 1974 as a dictationist for the Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter, and feature writer.
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In 1983, Maureen Dowd joined The New York Times, initially as a metropolitan reporter.
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Maureen Dowd began serving as correspondent in the Times Washington bureau in 1986.
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In 1991, Maureen Dowd received a Breakthrough Award from Columbia University.
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Maureen Dowd became a columnist on The New York Times op-ed page in 1995, replacing Anna Quindlen.
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Maureen Dowd was named a Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine in 1996, and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, for distinguished commentary.
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Maureen Dowd won The Damon Runyon Award for outstanding contributions to journalism in 2000, and became the first Mary Alice Davis Lectureship speaker at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005.
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In 2010, Maureen Dowd was ranked No 43 on The Daily Telegraphs list of the 100 most influential liberals in America; in 2007, she was ranked No 37 on the same list.
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Maureen Dowd tends to refer to her subjects by nicknames.
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Maureen Dowd's columns have been described as often being political cartoons that capture a caricatured view of the current political landscape with precision and exaggeration.
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Maureen Dowd went on to describe her negative experiences with legal cannabis in a June 3,2014 New York Times op-ed, following up on this story in another op-ed in September 2014, this time describing a discussion of using consumable cannabis with her "marijuana Miyagi" Willie Nelson.
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On March 4,2014, Maureen Dowd published a column about the dominance of men in the film industry in which she quoted Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
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Maureen Dowd published a column where she likened former Senator Clinton to the "Terminator", a ruthless cyborg where "unless every circuit is out, she'll regenerate enough to claw her way out of the grave"; in 2013 Jessica Ritchie, a research assistant at the University of Leicester, argued that portrayals such as these sought to portray Clinton and her presidential bid as improper and unnatural.
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Maureen Dowd is single but formerly dated Aaron Sorkin, the creator and producer of The West Wing.
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Maureen Dowd has been briefly connected with actor Michael Douglas and is an ex-companion of her fellow New York Times columnist John Tierney.
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In 2004, Maureen Dowd received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, presented by Awards Council member Neil Sheehan at the International Achievement Summit in Chicago.