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.