Eileen McNamara | |
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| Born | (1952-05-30)May 30, 1952 (age 73) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Spouse | Peter May |
| Children | 3 |
Eileen McNamara (born May 30, 1952)[1] is an Americanjournalist. She is the author ofEunice, The Kennedy Who Changed the World, published bySimon & Schuster. She is an emerita professor in the Journalism Program atBrandeis University and formerly acolumnist with theBoston Globe, where she won thePulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1997.[2]
A graduate ofBarnard College (1974) and theColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1976), she was aNieman Fellow at Harvard for the academic year 1987–88. She began her journalism career at Barnard as a campus correspondent for theDaily News in New York City before graduating toThe News-Times ofDanbury, CT and theUnited Press International in Boston. Her nickname is "Mac".
During nearly 30 years atThe Boston Globe, she covered everything from the night police beat to the United States Congress. First hired as a newsroom secretary, she worked her way up through the general assignment staff, the State House Bureau, the special projects team and the Sunday magazine staff to the position of columnist in 1995.
In addition to thePulitzer Prize for Commentary (1997), she has been the recipient of writing and the public service awards from theAmerican Society of Newspaper Editors,Sigma Delta Chi, the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation and others for a reporting career that focused on social issues as infant mortality, domestic violence and juvenile crime. In 2007, she was named a winner of theYankee Quill Award, the highest individual honor given by the Academy of New England Journalists.
She is married to the sportswriter Peter May,[3] and is the mother of three children.
A regular on local public affairs programs in Boston, she has also appeared onThe Today Show,Larry King Live andNightline. She appeared onThe Daily Show on September 25, 2006.
McNamara is the author of two previous books:Breakdown: Sex, Suicide and the Harvard Psychiatrist (which was anEdgar Award finalist in 1994) andThe Parting Glass: A Toast to the Traditional Pubs of Ireland (with photographer Eric Roth).
She contributed to the Boston Globe's coverage of theclergy sexual abuse scandal by recommending that the Spotlight Team look further into the cases she had reported on previously. In the 2015 filmSpotlight, McNamara was played by actress Maureen Keiller. Spotlight won theAcademy Award for the Best Picture in 2016.
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