Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd is a columnist for The New York Times Opinion Pages and a feature writer for The Times’s Styles and Arts & Leisure sections. Ms. Dowd won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999, in the commentary category, for her “unsparing columns on the hypocrisies involved in the Lewinsky affair and the effort to impeach President Clinton.” Ms. Dowd was appointed a columnist for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times in January 1995 and has covered ten presidential campaigns and served as White House correspondent during two administrations.

Dowd received a B.A. degree in English literature from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and her master’s degree in English literature from Columbia University in 2023.

Dowd’s latest book, Notorious, is a captivating collection of her most compelling celebrity profiles, released in March 2025.