Tucson Festival of Books

Maureen Dowd


Maureen Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times and an author whose new book, "Notorious," will debut the week of the festival. It is a compilation of stories about celebrities she has known through the years, from Uma Thurman to Greta Gerwig ... Paul Newman to Elon Musk.

Dowd has never been far from the spotlight. She received her Pulitzer Prize for columns about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in 1999. This is her second visit to the Tucson Festival of Books. 

Awards: Pulitzer Prize


Books:
Notorious
Hollywood, Fashion, and Culture Revealed Through Profiles of Our Most Infamous Celebrities
History / Biography
HarperCollins
March 2025
ISBN 9780063392229
512 pages

The Year of Voting Dangerously
The Derangement of American Politics
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Grand Central Publishing
September 2017
ISBN 9781455539253
528 pages