Maureen Dowd To Publish Bushworld This August

Posted on June 4, 2004

Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, has agreed to partner with G.P. Putnam's Sons for her first foray into book publishing. Her debut, entitled Bushworld, offers a look at the current administration. Neil Nyren, Senior Vice President, Publisher and Editor in Chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons, has acquired world and audio rights from literary agent Esther Newberg of ICM and it will be published in hardcover by Putnam in August 2004. Its release is timed to coincide with the upcoming Democratic and Republican conventions and the home stretch of the run for the Oval Office. The Berkley paperback edition will be published in 2005.

Mr. Nyren said, "Like a great deal of America, I've been an enormous fan of Maureen Dowd's work for many years. It's a genuine pleasure to be able to work with her on her first book -- and an extraordinary book, at that."

For eighteen years, Dowd has written about Washington and America in a voice that is caustic, funny, passionate, outraged and eloquent. Nothing has engaged her so powerfully, however, as the deeds of the George W. Bush administration. Now, in Bushworld, Dowd draws upon her work to probe the world of Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove and company.

Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, became a columnist for The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986. She has covered four presidential campaigns and served as White House correspondent. She also wrote a column, "On Washington," for The New York Times Magazine.

Dowd began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for The Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter and feature writer. When the Star closed in 1981, she went to Time magazine. Dowd joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter in 1983.