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About

Ellen Goodman, Columnist

 

Ellen Goodman is an American original. Her abundant talents--intellect, wit, style, news judgment--set her apart with an élan uniquely her own. Her Pulitzer Prize winning commentary appears in more than 375 newspapers.

One of those rare writers and thinkers who senses emerging shifts in our public and private lives, Goodman alters perceptions of confounding issues. “She takes current events and sees their universal truths,” says the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.

Goodman has been an innovative force in American journalism. She once said, “I think readers need to be less alienated from editorial pages” and made them so by expanding the debate on op-ed pages. She has commented on the tumult of social change and its impact on families, and shattered the mold of men writing exclusively about politics.

Goodman brings new readers to editorial pages. She is widely acclaimed as a voice of sanity, and readers depend on her to help them make sense of their changing lives and relationships. “I have always read Ellen Goodman,” a Sarasota, Fla., reader says. “She writes on issues that concern me, no matter where I’ve lived or where I moved.”

Goodman’s first job was at Newsweek as a researcher, at a time when only men became writers. She landed a job as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press in 1965 and, in 1967, for The Boston Globe where she began writing her column.

A 1963 cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College, Goodman returned to Harvard in 1973-74 as a Nieman Fellow, where she studied the dynamics of social change. Her column was syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group in 1976.

In 1980, Goodman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary.

As the first Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism at Stanford University, she taught opinion writing for the winter semester in 1996.

Goodman’s first book, “Turning Points” (Doubleday, 1979), detailed the effect of the changing roles of women on the family. Six collections of her columns have been published: “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times” (Simon & Schuster, 2004); “Close to Home” (Simon & Schuster, 1979); “At Large” (Summit Books, 1981); “Keeping in Touch” (Summit Books, 1985); “Making Sense” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989); and “Value Judgments” (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993). She is also co-author with Patricia O’Brien of “I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women’s Lives” (Simon & Schuster, 2000).

Goodman’s work has won many other awards, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award in 1980. She received the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in 1988. In 1993, at its Seventh Annual Exceptional Merit Media Award Ceremony, The National Women’s Political Caucus gave her the President’s Award. In 1994, the Women’s Research & Education Institute presented her with their American Woman Award.

Ellen Goodman lives in Brookline, Mass., with her husband.

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2008

05/14 Destroying a Village of Pedophilia

05/08 Obama’s Mama

04/30 Unequal Under the Law

04/24 How We Make Change

04/17 Family Ties

04/09 In Utero Inc.

04/02 The Mother-Daughter Divide

03/26 McCain’s Age Is No Joke

03/20 Too Big to Fail

03/13 The Wronged Political Wives Club

03/05 The Race Goes On

02/28 Shopping the Spiritual Mall

02/21 Why Obama Owes Women

02/14 You Are More Than What You Eat

02/06 So Much for Conventional Wisdom

01/31 Between a Veteran and a Visionary

01/23 On Being ‘Black Enough’

01/16 The Dream Ticket

01/09 How Hillary Got Her Women Back

01/02 Hollywood’s Thumbs-Down on Abortion

2007

12/27 Peace With the Earth

12/19 Eek! It’s a Wrinkle!

12/12 Mr. Personality’s Flaws

12/06 Not Enough ‘Audacity of Hope’ to Go Around

11/28 Bush’s ‘Stem Cell Victory’

11/15 A Tale of Two Turkeys

11/08 The Gender Trap

11/01 Cyborg Parents From Hell

10/24 Moral Minority

10/17 From Loser to Laureate

10/03 Clinton Walks That Fine Pink Line

09/27 Lord of the Sighs

09/20 Prairie Justice

09/13 From Fear to Farce

09/05 The Bigger Bathroom Picture

08/23 The Year for Women

08/08 The Virtual Glass Ceiling

07/25 The Candidate Behind the Cleavage

07/18 Taking Math to the Talking Myth

07/05 The Supremely Disappointing Court

06/28 The Way-Paver Makes Waves

06/21 The Bigots Are Coming! The Bigots Are Coming!

06/14 Science Progresses Despite Politics

05/24 The Fastest Man on No Legs

05/16 Oprah’s Politics Club

05/10 Give Moms Their Due—They’ve Earned It

05/03 AIDS Czar Caught With His Pants Down

04/26 Supremes Know Best

04/19 Governing the Womb

04/05 The Benefits of Slow Journalism

03/27 Politics Is Personal

03/22 The Ultimate Taboo

03/14 Justice for the ‘Comfort Women’

03/07 Shedding Hillary’s ‘Sexual Power’

03/01 Lost in the Lobbying

02/21 The Perils of Cyberbaggage

02/14 A New Day at Harvard

02/07 Political Climate Change Needed

01/31 Mitt Romney’s Hypocritical Turnarounds

01/25 Obama’s ‘Fresh Face’ Could Work Against Him

01/18 Ellen Goodman: Fox in the Henhouse

01/11 Ellen Goodman: Bob the Un-Builder

01/03 Ellen Goodman: From Stay-at-Home to Speaker

2006

12/27 Ellen Goodman: Ready, Steady, Go

12/20 Ellen Goodman: Mary Cheney and the DNA-Dad Issue

12/13 Ellen Goodman: Let the Iraqis Make Their Own Future

12/06 Ellen Goodman: Some Things Do Not Pass

11/22 Ellen Goodman: Men Are From Mars, Women Want to ‘Make Things Better’

11/16 Ellen Goodman: The Poster Boy of Self-Hate

11/08 Ellen Goodman: The New ‘Values’ Voters

11/02 Ellen Goodman: A Seat at the Table

10/26 Ellen Goodman: Bustiers and Niqabs

10/18 Ellen Goodman: Conflation of Church and State

10/05 Ellen Goodman: A Lousy Way to Win Back Congress

09/27 Ellen Goodman: Speak of the Devil

09/20 Ellen Goodman: Taking ‘Choice’ Out of Pro-Choice

09/13 Ellen Goodman: Horror or Hope in Vegetative Patient Study?

09/06 Ellen Goodman: Failures of Imagination

08/10 Ellen Goodman: Popping the Cork Halfway on Plan B

08/02 Ellen Goodman: Wedding Bells Only for Breeders?

07/20 Ellen Goodman: Putting a Wedge Between the Right and Loony Right

07/12 Ellen Goodman: What’s Eating Us About Eating Lobster?

07/05 Ellen Goodman: The ‘Boy Crisis’ Is a Red Herring

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