The Woman Behind the Byline: Meet Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd’s byline is everywhere these days, from her weekly New York Times opinion piece to her extensive number of celebrity profiles and interviews. In the fall of 2022 alone, she traveled the world to interview Tom Stoppard in the UK, Jann Wenner in the Hamptons, Christine Baranski in Manhattan and Vogue’s Edward Enninful in London. She sits down with friend and former New York Times colleague Shawn McCreesh to talk about her life and exciting career to reveal the woman behind the byline. Dowd is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, author of three New York Times bestsellers and covers American politics, popular culture and international affairs for The New York Times. Shawn McCreesh is a features writer for New York magazine and former editorial assistant to Maureen Dowd.