Kathleen Parker

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Kathleen Parker
Born Winter Haven, Florida
Education Winter Haven High School
Alma mater Florida State University (M.A.)
Occupation Columnist
Notable credit(s) Orlando Sentinel
Washington Post
(1987–present)

Kathleen Parker is a politically conservative-leaning[1] columnist for The Washington Post. Her columns are syndicated nationally and appear in more than 400 media outlets, both online and in print.[2] 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 NBC's "Meet the Press" and MSNBC's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews. An entertaining speaker on politics and culture, she is represented by Leading Authorities in Washington, DC.[3] Parker describes herself politically as "mostly right of center"[4] and was the highest-scoring conservative pundit in a 2012 retrospective study of pundit prediction accuracy in 2008.[5]

Career

Parker's journalism career started in 1977 when she was hired to cover Hanahan, Goose Creek and Moncks Corner by the now-defunct Charleston Evening Post.[6]

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 USA 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 CNN with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.[7] In 2011 she left the show to focus more on her writing.

Parker was the 1993 winner of the H.L. Mencken Writing Award presented by the Baltimore Sun.[8] The Week magazine named her one of the nation's top five columnists in 2004 and 2005.[citation needed] She won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for a selection of political opinion columns.[9]

Controversies

Parker made news during the 2008 U.S. 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".[10][11][12] Parker received over 11,000 responses, mostly from conservatives criticizing her.[13]

Personal life

Parker grew up in Winter Haven in Polk County, Florida.[14] Daughter of lawyer J. Hal Connor and mother, Martha originally from Barnwell County South Carolina,[6] died when Parker was just 3.[14] Parker often spent summers with her mothers family, in Columbia South Carolina.[6] She is married to an attorney Woody Cleveland, has one son and two stepsons, and resides in Camden, South Carolina.[6][15]

References

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  8. ↑ http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-09-23/news/1993266074_1_mencken-kathleen-parker-marion-elizabeth-rodgers
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  13. ↑ Reliable Sources, CNN, October 5, 2008. Transcript on Lexis/Nexis. Retrieved August 2009.
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