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Award-winning and acclaimed New York Times writers Maureen Dowd and Alessandra Stanley will appear together in a special program, “Politics & Pop... Pop & Politics.”
Dowd was appointed a columnist for the Op-Ed page of the Times in 1995 and is now covering her seventh presidential campaign. She served as White House correspondent during the first Bush and the Clinton administrations, gaining a wide following for her witty, incisive and penetrating portraits of the powerful.
Dowd is a 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner in the commentary category and has won the coveted Damon Runyon Award for outstanding contributions to journalism. She has written the bestsellers, Bushworld and Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide.
Stanley has been the chief television critic at the Times since 2003. Before that she served as bureau chief in Moscow and Rome. Prior to joining the Times, Stanley was a writer and correspondent for TIME Magazine. She began as a stringer in Paris, and was later assigned to the Los Angeles bureau, New York, and finally, the Washington bureau covering The White House and presidential campaigns.
While at TIME Magazine, Stanley also worked in Central America, and traveled to Afghanistan, Asia and Africa on special assignments. She has written articles for The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, GQ and Vogue.
This joint appearance will be a rare opportunity for two delightful, knowledgeable and opinionated writers to exchange views on the role of politics and culture in our lives.
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Chief TV Critic, The New York Times