Background
Crowley was born at Fort Huachuca, an Army base located outside of Sierra Vista, Arizona and grew up in Warren Township, New Jersey.
Crowley was born at Fort Huachuca, an Army base located outside of Sierra Vista, Arizona and grew up in Warren Township, New Jersey.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Colgate University and a Doctor of Philosophy in International Relations from Columbia University (2000).
She is known for her appearances on Fox News. She is currently the online opinion editor for The Washington Times and regular columnist. As a student, Crowley began writing letters to former President Richard Nixon, who hired her as a research assistant in 1990 when she was just 22 years old.
She was an editorial adviser and consultant on Nixon"s last two books, and following Nixon"s death, she published two books about him.
In the mid-1990s Crowley wrote a column for the New York Post. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and The Washington Times.
Alleged plagiarism In 1999, Crowley allegedly plagiarized an article by the British writer Paul Johnson, which she presented as her own in the The Wall Street Journal. The article, about Nixon, contained several verbatim statements from Johnson"s Commentary Magazine article, down to his British phrases.
Radio Crowley was a commentator for National Public Radio"s Morning Edition in the mid-1990s.
Since 2002, she has had her own radio show, The Monica Crowley Show, which originally had been on weekends on Westwood One and then moved to Talk Radio Network, first on Saturdays and then on weekdays 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm ET. Beginning in July 2009, The Monica Crowley Show went back to its former weekend-only format and has been available as a podcast on iTunes.
She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.