Maureen Callahan
Maureen Callahan is an American columnist for the Daily Mail known for her opinion pieces regarding politics, feminism, pop culture, and current events.
Early life and education edit
Callahan is of Irish-American heritage and grew up on Long Island.[1] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Career edit
Callahan began working for Sassy magazine and MTV at age 17. Music journalist Marc Spitz wrote about going to a Michael Jackson concert and sharing the experience of growing up in the 1980s with Callahan in his book Poseur: A memoir of downtown New York in the '90s.[2][1]
She has written for Sassy, Spin, New York magazine, MTV, and Vanity Fair. She authored Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion, a 2014 non-fiction account of the fashion industry, and Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga in 2010.[3]
Callahan worked as a writer, editor and later columnist for the New York Post from 2002 to September 2022. She has worked as a columnist for Daily Mail since October 2022.
She received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor award as co-author of "Don't Drink the Brown Water", a piece in Spin magazine about what led to riots and violence at Woodstock '99.[4][5] Callahan was interviewed as a part of Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage a documentary produced by HBO.[6]
In 2016, Irish America listed Callahan as one of its "Top 50 Power Women" of the year.[1] In 2019, she published the true crime book American Predator.[7][8]
Bibliography edit
- —— (2014). Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion. Simon and Schuster.
- —— (2010). Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga. Hachette Books.
- —— (2019). American Predator.
References edit
- ^ a b c "Maureen Callahan - Irish America". Irishamerica.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ Spitz, Marc (12 February 2013). Poseur: A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the '90s. Da Capo Press. p. 287. ISBN 978-0-306-82174-5.
- ^ "Maureen Callahan". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ "33rd Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Award Recipients". ASCAP. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ "Spin editors honored". SPIN. January 2001. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ "HBO's 'Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage' Will Cure Your 1990s Nostalgia". Vogue. 2021-07-23. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ Lyons, CJ. "American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century". New York Journal of Books.
- ^ Drabelle, Dennis (July 3, 2019). "American Predator". The Washington Post.