(1944-08-30)August 30, 1944 Monterey, California, U.S.
Died
January 31, 2007(2007-01-31) (aged 62) Austin, Texas, U.S.
Occupation
Columnist
commentator
author
Education
Smith College Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Period
1967–2007
Subjects
American politics
Texas politics
current affairs
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, and political commentator, known for her humorous and insightful writing, which often used satire and wit to critique political figures and policies.
Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her journalism career at the Minneapolis Tribune where she became the first female police reporter at the paper. Ivins joined The Texas Observer in the early 1970s and later moved to The New York Times. She became a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald in the 1980s, and then the Fort Worth Star-Telegram after the Times Herald was sold and shuttered in 1991. Her column was subsequently syndicated by Creators Syndicate and carried by hundreds of newspapers.
A biography of Ivins, Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, was co-written in 2010 by PEN-USA winning presidential biographer Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 said:
Ivins's pithy assessments of politics and life at large crackle with broad Texas humor. Combining her talent for culling information with her razor-sharp wit, she throws a powerful knockout punch. ... Whether one agrees with her or not, Ivins's pen pierces both the brain and the funny bone.[1]
^Terry Eastland, ed. Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994: A Critical Review of the Media (1994) p 291
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original on April 18, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2015. Ivins, Molly (1991). "Beulah Mae Donald". MollyIvins Can't Say That, Can She?. Vintage. pp. 255–262....
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independent film, Raise Hell: The Life and Times of MollyIvins, about author and activist MollyIvins. An overall deal with Disney led Burrell to work as...
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big margin", Rocky Mountain News (Denver), December 15, 1978, p. 1. MollyIvins, "Union at Coors May Be Broken But It Hasn't Halted Its Boycott" Archived...
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old maid." In 1995, King publicly accused the writer MollyIvins of plagiarizing her work. Ivins publicly acknowledged and apologized for her error in...
or dodged the draft." Regarding Buchanan's speech, liberal humorist MollyIvins quipped that it "probably sounded better in the original German." Twenty...
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of George W. Bush, which Dubose wrote in collaboration with the late MollyIvins, was a New York Times best seller. Dubose has covered American politics...
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