Ellen Goodman
(April 11 1941, Newton MA) is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist.
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Career
Goodman worked as a researcher and reporter for
Newsweek
magazine between 1963 and 1965, and has worked as an associate editor at the
Boston Globe
since 1967.
In 1998, Goodman received the
Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary
Doctor of Laws degree from
Colby College.
Personal life
Goodman is the daughter of Jacob Holtz and Edith Weinstein Holtz, and is the sister of architecture critic and author
Jane Holtz Kay. Goodman graduated (cum laude) from
Radcliffe College in 1963 with a degree in modern European history. She married her first husband Anthony Goodman in 1963 and gave birth to their daughter Katie in 1968. After their divorce, she married her second husband, journalist Bob Levey in 1982.
She has been strongly criticized for comparing anthropologic warming sceptics to Holocaust deniers.
Published books
Turning Points
(1979)
Close to Home
(1979)
At Large
(1981)
Keeping in Touch
(1985)
Making Sense
(1989)
Value Judgments
(1993)
Paper Trail
(2004)
Co-author, with Patricia O'Brien:
I Know Just What You Mean : The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives
(2000)