Ellen Holtz Goodman

Background

Goodman, Ellen Holtz was born on April 11, 1941 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Jackson Jacob and Edith (Weinstein) Holtz.

Education

Goodman attended Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts for two years and graduated in 1959 from Buckingham School, now Buckingham Browne & Nichols. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1963 with a degree in modern European history. A year later, she returned to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow.

At Harvard, Goodman studied the dynamics of social change. In 2007, Goodman studied gender and the news at John F. Kennedy School of Government where she was a Shorenstein Fellow.

Career

She is also a speaker and commentator. Goodman's career began as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek magazine between 1963 and 1965. She was a reporter at the Detroit Free Press starting in 1965 and has worked as an associate editor at The Boston Globe since 1967.

Her column was syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group in 1976. In 1996, she taught at Stanford University as the first Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism. She compared "anthropogenic warming deniers" to holocaust deniers.

She announced her retirement in her final column, which ran on January 1, 2010. In 2010, Goodman started "", a group dedicated to the wishes of end-of-life care.

Achievements

• Goodman won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1980. Some of her other accolades include the American Society of Newspaper Editors' (now the American Society of News Editors) Distinguished Writing Award (1980). In 1988, Goodman won the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. She was awarded the President's Award by the National Women's Political Caucus in 1993.
  
  A year later, she was given the American Woman Award by the Women's Research & Institute. In 2008, she won the Ernie Pyle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

Works

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• book

  • Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times

    (In this rich and savvy collection of commentaries on the ...)

  • I Know Just What You Mean

    (Pulitzer prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman and noveli...)

  • Value Judgments: Essays

    (One of our most trenchant columnists takes the measure of...)

  • Keeping in Touch
  • Letters to Africa (Realistic Fiction; Keeping in Touch)
  • I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives (New York)
  • I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives (New York) by Goodman, Ellen, O'Brien, Patricia (2001) Paperback
  • I Know Just What You Mean: The Poser of Friendship in Women's Lives
  • [ I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives (New York) By Goodman, Ellen ( Author ) Paperback 2001 ]

• Other Work

  • Author: Close to Home, 1979, Turning Points, 1979, At Large, 1981, Keeping in Touch, 1985, Making Sense, 1989, Value Judgments, 1993, (with Patricia O'Brien) I Know Just What You Mean, 2000, Paper Trail, 2004.

Membership

Trustee Radcliffe College. Judge Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, since 1986.

Connections

Married Robert Levey. 1 daughter, Katherine Anne.

Father:

Jackson Jacob Holtz

Mother:

Edith (Weinstein) Holtz

Spouse:

Robert Levey