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National Judges: Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodmann
Columnist, The Boston Globe and the Washington Post Writer’s Group

Since 1976, Ellen Goodman has written about social change and its impact on American life. She was one of the first women to open up the opinion pages to women’s voices and her commentary appears in more than 375 newspapers. Her vivid style has attracted a fervent national following.

Goodman won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1980, and holds several other major awards, including one for distinguished writing from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2008, she won the Ernie Pyle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Society of Newspaper columnists.

She is the author of several books, “Turning Points,” “I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women’s Lives,” with Patricia O’Brien and five volumes of her collected columns. Her latest book, “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times” was published in 2004 by Simon and Schuster.

Goodman’s first job was at Newsweek as a researcher, at a time when only men became writers. She landed a job as a reporter at the Detroit Free Press in 1965 and, in 1967, at The Boston Globe where she began writing her column.

A 1963 cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College, Goodman spent 1973 to 1974 at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. She has been a syndicated columnist for The Boston Globe and the Washington Post Writers Group since 1976. Goodman lives in Brookline, Mass., with her husband. Read more about her at www.ellengoodman.com.

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