Molly Ivins ’66, known for her acerbic and refreshingly honest political columns, received the International Women’s Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award this October.
Ivins attended Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»her freshman year, in 1962-63, then transferred to Smith College, where she graduated in 1966; both colleges legitimately claim her as an alumna and member of their respective classes of 1966. Ivins has returned to the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»campus several times for speaking engagements and delivered the Commencement address in May 2003.
Ivins pens a nationally syndicated column carried in more than 200 newspapers and a column for The Progressive, while contributing regularly to Time, The Nation, and Mother Jones. Considered one of the nation’s wittiest political pundits, Ivins is also a writer for the American Civil Liberties Union and is active in Amnesty International’s Journalism Network. The author of several books, including Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Ivins received the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994 and has been a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.