Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins (born August 30, 1944) is an American political commentator, journalist and author based in Austin, Texas. She is a syndicated columnist with a nationwide distribution.
Ivins was born in Houston, Texas to a staunchly Republican family. Her father was a corporate lawyer and her mother a homemaker who had a B.A. in psychology from Smith College. Ivins made her way to liberalism on issues of race ("once you realize they're lying to you about race everything else follows") and the Vietnam War. She followed in her mother's footsteps by graduating from Smith in 1966, and took her MA from Columbia_University_Graduate_School_of_Journalism. She also studied for a year at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris.
Her first newspaper job was in the Complaint Department of the Houston Chronicle. She went on to the Minneapolis Tribune, where she was the first woman police reporter in that city, then returned to Texas as co-editor of the Texas Observer, a left-wing muckracking monthly. In 1976, Ivins joined the New York Times, first as a political reporter in New York City and Albany. She was then named their Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief, although she self-deprecatingly claims there was no one else in the bureau. Ivins, who is known for her colloquial, humorous style, has described hell as "being edited by the Times Copy Desk for all eternity," and she was eventually fired for referring to a chicken-killing as a "gang pluck."
In 1982, she returned to Texas as a columnist for the late Dallas Times-Herald. After the newspaper closed, she spent the next nine years with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She became an independent journalist in 2001 and also in that year won the William Allen White Award from the University of Kansas, the Smith Medal from Smith College and was elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the 2003 recipient of the
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