Her Pulitzer Prize commentary appears in more than 450 newspapers.

Ellen Goodman has been an innovative force in American journalism. She once said, "I think readers need to be less alienated from editorial pages" and made them so by expanding the debate on op ed pages. Ellen has commented on the tumult of social change and its impact on families. She shattered the mold of men writing exclusively about politics, as well.

Ellen Goodman brings new readers to editorial pages. She is widely acclaimed as a voice of sanity and readers depend on her to help them make sense of their changing lives and relationships.

Goodman's first job was at Newsweek as a researcher, which was a time when only men became writers. She landed a job as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press in 1965 and The Boston Globe in 1967 where she began writing her column.

A 1963 cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College,Ellen Goodman returned to Harvard in 1973 74 as a Nieman Fellow, where she studied the dynamics of social change. Her column was syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group in 1976.

In 1980, Ellen Goodman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary. As the first Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism at Stanford University, she taught opinion writing for the winter semester in 1996.

Goodman's work has won many other awards, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award in 1980. She received the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in 1988. In 1993, at its Seventh Annual Exceptional Merit Media Award Ceremony, The National Women's Political Caucus gave her the President's Award. In 1994, the Women's Research & Education Institute presented her with their American Woman Award.