Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd , born the January 14th 1952 with Washington, D.C with the the United States, is a leader-writer with the prestigious American daily newspaper The NewYork Times and prize winner of the Prix Pulitzer in 1999 for its articles on the business Monica Lewinsky (or Monicagate ) and the attempt at dismissal of the president William “Bill” Clinton. It is famous for its caustic papers with the irreverent and ironic style immediately identifiable.
As in very stereotyped of irlando-American family, the family is very Catholique with many children (Maureen is the fifth child) and the father works for the municipal police. In 1973, it leaves graduate (a modest diploma of 4th year) in English Littérature the catholic Université America (Washington, District off Columbia) and enters, as a secretary, with the daily newspaper Washington Star before becoming journalist there. Following the bankruptcy of the Star in 1981, it integrates the large weekly magazine Time ; then share to join the NewYork Times as a journalist of the municipal section in 1983.
When the leader-writer Anna Quindlen leaves the NewYork Times for Newsweek in 1995, Dowd takes its place. Some will object that it acts of the place reserved to the women in the columns of the Times , like a quota. Quindlen and Dowd write sometimes articles together on feminist topics .
Even if Dowd refutes to belong to any political vault, its criticisms make a progressist clearly of it. It distributes its laughing spades with talent, as much for the Administration Bush that for the Clinton Administration in its time, but guard a particular tooth against Dubya . Its political positions were worth to him to be a little isolated with NY Times after the media realignment which followed the attacks of the September 11th 2001. The major leader-writers of the newspaper preferred to make watch of an alignment with the Administration such William Safire to continue to express divergent sights; only Dowd and Bob Herbert made the choice of freedom of speech in front of careerism. One can reproach Dowd for letting oneself carry by his feather and for losing sight of the fact the topic of his article.
In 2004, Maureen Dowd published at Putnam a collection of its leading articles: Bushworld: Enter At Your Own Risk (not translated into French yet).
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