Maureen Bridgid Dowd (; born January 14, 1952) is an American
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.