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Ellen Goodman began her career at the Globe in 1967. |
Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman has been honored with a lifetime achievement award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
"It's an overdue honor," said Mike Argento, president of the society. "I see Ellen as one of the pioneering . . . feminist columnists and a pioneer in the personal essay, where she melds personal experience with public policy arguments."
The society's Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award is named after war correspondent Ernie Pyle, who was killed in World War II. Past recipients include Clarence Page, Art Buchwald, and Pete Hamill.
Goodman graduated from Radcliffe in 1963 and began her journalism career as a researcher for Newsweek magazine. She became a reporter at the Globe in 1967 and a full-time columnist four years later.
By 1976, her work went into national syndication with the
Goodman won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary at the age of 39 for a selection of columns on a variety of subjects, including marriage and rape, adolescence, her reflections on John F. Kennedy, the trauma of turning 40, and the problems of public distrust as exemplified by the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.
In 1988, she received the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award for her dedication to the cause of racial equality.
Goodman also wrote "Turning Points," a 1979 book about the changing roles of women in the family.
In an excerpt published in the Globe, Goodman described herself as "one who chronicles change," whether the civil rights, peace, or women's movements.
"Like many journalists, I believe that one way to find answers is to ask questions," she wrote, "and so the way to find out how people change is to talk with some of them."
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