MAUREEN DOWD 

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Maureen Dowd, Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times columnist, and author of Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion and Tech

Interviewer Todd S. Purdum

Todd S. Purdum is a veteran journalist and author, who has written widely about politics and culture.  At The New York Times, he spent twenty-three years covering politics from city hall to the White House and served as the Los Angeles bureau chief. He was a senior writer at Politico and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. His most recent book, Desi Arnaz:  The Man Who Invented Television, focuses on the trailblazer whose legacy continues to influence American culture.  Purdum also wrote, Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution, and An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

Monday, December 1st, 2025, at THE KENTUCKY CENTER

Maureen Dowd is a columnist for The New York Times Opinion pages and a feature writer for The Times’s Styles and Arts & Leisure sections. Ms. Dowd won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999, in the commentary category, for her “unsparing columns on the hypocrisies involved in the Lewinsky affair and the effort to impeach President Clinton.” She has covered ten presidential campaigns and served as White House correspondent during the first Bush administration and the Clinton administration. Dowd has written three best-selling books — Bushworld, Are Men Necessary?, and The Year of Voting Dangerously. Her latest book, Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion and Tech, is a captivating collection of her most compelling celebrity profiles. Using her signature wit and incisive commentary as a scalpel, Dowd dissects influential cultural elites, shining a white-hot spotlight on America’s famous, from Hollywood legends to Broadway stars to media moguls.

Praise for Notorious:

"...Dowd has a knack for asking questions that go right up to the edge of intrusion but instead yield thoughtful, intimate insights.”—Los Angeles Times 

University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum

at Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts

5:00 PM - Wine and Cheese Reception, Carmichael’s pre-signed book sale in the lobby 

6:00 PM – Interview in the Bomhard Theater

7:00 PM - Q&A with audience in the Bomhard Theater

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7:30 PM – Special Dinner in honor of the author and interviewer

$170 package includes all events, plus dinner

($40 tax deductible contribution to non-profit Kentucky Author Forum)

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The University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forums are made available to PBS member stations nationwide, under the title Great Conversations. KAF is the only Louisville cultural program to be broadcast nationally. ​Forums are also recorded as podcast episodes, called Great Podversations, which are distributed by Louisville Public Media, and available on iTunes, NPR, Spotify, Stitcher, and most other podcast apps.

The Kentucky Author Forum series was founded by Mary Moss Greenebaum, and is sponsored by the Owsley Brown II Family, Bittners, the James Graham Brown Foundation, and LDG Development. Other partners include Carmichael’s Bookstore, Kentucky Performing Arts, KET, The Courier-Journal, and Louisville Public Media.