Education
Parker grew up in Winter Haven, Florida, graduated from Winter Haven High School, and attended Converse College and the University of Valencia before transferring to Florida State University, where she majored in Spanish literature.
Parker grew up in Winter Haven, Florida, graduated from Winter Haven High School, and attended Converse College and the University of Valencia before transferring to Florida State University, where she majored in Spanish literature.
Her columns are syndicated nationally by The Washington Post and appear in more than 400 media outlets, both online and in print. Parker is a consulting faculty member at the Buckley School of Public Speaking, a popular guest on cable and network news shows and a regular panelist on National Broadcasting Company"s "Meet the Press" and Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company"s "Hardball" with Chris Matthews. An entertaining speaker on politics and culture, she is represented by Leading Authorities in Washington, District of Columbia. Parker describes herself politically as "mostly right of center" and was the highest-scoring conservative pundit in a 2012 retrospective study of pundit prediction accuracy in 2008.
She holds a Master"s degree in the subject from Florida State and was also a Master"s dance student at the University.
A columnist since 1987, she has worked for five newspapers, from Florida to California. She has written for several magazines, including The Weekly Standard, Time, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, and Fortune Small Business.
She serves on the Board of Contributors for United States of America Today"s Forum Page, part of the newspaper"s Opinion section. She is also a contributor to the online magazine The Daily Beast.
Parker is the author of Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care.
Starting in the fall of 2010, Parker co-hosted the cable news program Parker Spitzer on Cable News Network with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. In 2011 she left the show to focus more on her writing. The Week magazine named her one of the nation"s top five columnists in 2004 and 2005.
Parker made news during the 2008 United States. presidential election when she called on the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Governor Sarah Palin, to step down from the party ticket, saying that a series of media interviews showed that Palin was "clearly out of her league".
Parker received over 11,000 responses, mostly from conservatives criticizing her.