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Molly Ivins
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Born August 30, 1944Died January 31, 2007 (62 years)
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist.
Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her journalism career at the Minneapolis Tribune where she became the first female police reporter at the paper. Ivins joined The Texas Observer in the early 1970s and later moved to The New York Times. She became a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald in the 1980s, and then the Fort Worth Star-Telegram after the Times Herald was sold and shuttered in 1991. Her column was subsequently syndicated by Creators Syndicate and carried by hundreds of newspapers.
A biography of Ivins, Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, was co-written in 2010 by PEN-USA winning presidential biographer Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith.
Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her journalism career at the Minneapolis Tribune where she became the first female police reporter at the paper. Ivins joined The Texas Observer in the early 1970s and later moved to The New York Times. She became a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald in the 1980s, and then the Fort Worth Star-Telegram after the Times Herald was sold and shuttered in 1991. Her column was subsequently syndicated by Creators Syndicate and carried by hundreds of newspapers.
A biography of Ivins, Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, was co-written in 2010 by PEN-USA winning presidential biographer Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith.
Filmography
| 2019 | |
| 2006 | The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress · as Self - Syndicated Columnist |
| 2006 | Al Franken: God Spoke · as Self |
| 2005 | Do You Speak American? · as Self |
| 2004 | Rush to War · as Self |
| 2004 | |
| 2002 | Dildo Diaries · as Self |
| 2002 | NOW (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Dennis Miller Live (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | To the Contrary (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1988 | American Tongues · as Self |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Late Night With David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes (TV Series) · as Self - Debater (segment "ivins & Crouch, Crouch & Ivins") |