Maureen Dowd is a New York Times columnist and the bestselling author of The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics; Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide; and Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk. Dowd has previously written for Time and theWashington Star. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her New York Times coverage of scandal in the Clinton administration.
