Kathleen Parker - Biography
Kathleen Parker, appearing in more than 400 newspapers, is at home both inside and outside the Washington Beltway. She won the prestigious H.L. Mencken Writing Award in 1993.
Parker started her column in 1987 when she was a staff writer for The Orlando Sentinel. Her column was nationally syndicated in 1995 and she joined The Washington Post Writers Group in 2006. Along the way, she has contributed articles to The Weekly Standard, Time, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, and Fortune Small Business, and she serves on USA Today's board of contributors and writes for that newspaper's Op-Ed page. She is a regular guest on "The Chris Matthews Show" on NBC. Her book "Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care" was published in 2008 by Random House.
As an undergraduate, Parker studied in both the United States and abroad, including the University of Valencia in Spain. She holds a master's degree in Spanish from Florida State University, and is writer in residence at the Buckley School of Public Speaking in Camden, S.C.