Ellen Goodman

Ellen Goodman, a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist, was one of the first women to open up the op-ed pages to women’s voices. She spent most of her career chronicling social change and its impact on American life. Her Boston Globe column was syndicated by the Washington Post Writers group and appeared in more than 400 newspapers. A graduate of Radcliffe College, Goodman returned to Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow and a Shorenstein Fellow. She has written eight books, including Close to Home and the New York Times bestseller I Know Just What You Mean, co-authored with Patricia O’Brien. She co-founded The Conversation Project, a public engagement campaign to ensure that end-of-life wishes would be expressed and respected.