Susan Page Biography
Susan Page is an American journalist and biographer. She was born on February 12th, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas. She is currently working as the Washington Bureau for USA Today.
She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1973. She was an editor for the Daily Northwestern and earned her master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She was a Pulitzer Fellow while in Columbia.
As a child, she studied oboe in the third grade and she used to play it in school orchestras throughout her public school education. She was the editor-in-chief of her high school yearbook, The Hoofbeats. For the school newspaper, The Stampede, she served as a reporter and an editor. She wanted to join a music school but then she decided to go the journalism way at Northwestern University.
Susan Page Age
She was born on February 12th, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas. She is 68 years old as of 2019.
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Susan Page Husband
She has been married to Carl Leubsdorf since 1982.
Susan Page Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $ 10 million.
Susan Page Education
She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1973. She was an editor for the Daily Northwestern and earned her master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She was a Pulitzer Fellow while in Columbia.
Susan Page Career | Susan Page USA Today | Susan Page PBS
She has covered a total of 6 White House administrations and 10 presidential elections. She has also interviewed the past 9 US. Presidents. She is the founder of USA Today which is an award-winning video newsmaker series. She appears often as a guest on cable news as an analyst and often guest-hosted The Diane Rehm Show.
The show is syndicated on National Public Radio. She was the first female to serve as the music chairman of the Gridiron Club show and she was also the president of the club. The club is the oldest association of journalists in the USA.
She was also the president of the White House Correspondents Association back in 2000. She was also the chairman of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards at some point in her career. She has also been a juror twice for the Pulitzer Prizes.
She published her first book, a biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush titled The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty, in 2019. She has also signed a deal to write the biography of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi titled Madame Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Arc of Power.
Susan Page The Matriarch
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“[The] rare biography of a public figure that’s not only beautifully written but also shockingly revelatory.” — The Atlantic
A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history.
Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country’s most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told.
THE MATRIARCH tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies and an entire political era. Written by USA TODAY’s Washington Bureau chief Susan Page, this biography is informed by more than one hundred interviews with Bush friends and family members, hours of conversation with Mrs. Bush herself in the final six months of her life, and access to her diaries that spanned decades.
THE MATRIARCH examines not only her public persona but also less well-known aspects of her remarkable life. As a girl in Rye, New York, Barbara Bush weathered criticism of her weight from her mother, barbs that left lifelong scars.
As a young wife, she coped with the death of her three-year-old daughter from leukemia, a loss that changed her forever. In middle age, she grappled with depression so serious that she contemplated suicide. And as first the wife and then the mother of American presidents, she made history as the only woman to see — and advise — both her husband and son in the Oval Office.
As with many women of her era, Barbara Bush was routinely underestimated, her contributions often neither recognized nor acknowledged. But she became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist and a beloved First Lady.
She invested herself deeply in expanding literacy programs in America, played a critical role at the end of the Cold War, and led the way in demonstrating love and compassion to those with HIV/AIDS. With her cooperation, this book offers Barbara Bush’s last words for history — on the evolution of her party, on the role of women, on Donald Trump, and on her family’s legacy.
Barbara Bush’s accomplishments, struggles, and contributions are many. Now, Susan Page explores them all in THE MATRIARCH, a groundbreaking book certain to cement Barbara Bush as one of the most unique and influential women in American history.
Title The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Author Susan Page
Edition illustrated
Publisher Grand Central Publishing, 2019
ISBN 1538713659, 9781538713655
Length of 432 pages
Susan Page Awards
She has won a few honors for her work, including the Merriman Smith Memorial Award, the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award, the Gerald R. Portage Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency (twice) and the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Washington Correspondence (shared).
