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Susan Page is the Washington Bureau chief of USA Today, where she writes about the White House and national politics. She is the author of “The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty,” a New York Times bestseller published in 2019. She is now completing a biography of Nancy Pelosi titled “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Arc of Power,” which is being published in April 2021.
Susan has covered six White House administrations and in 2020 is covering her eleventh presidential election. She has interviewed the past nine presidents and reported from six continents and dozens of foreign countries. As a reporter -- first for Newsday and then for USA TODAY -- she drove to Three Mile Island hours after the nuclear mishap was reported, traveled across Southeast Asia to chronicle the exodus of Vietnamese ‘boat people,’ and interviewed physicist Stephen Hawking through his computerized ‘voice.’
She has won every journalism award given for coverage of the White House, including the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency (twice), the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage, and the Merriman Smith Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure. She has served as president of the White House Correspondents Association and as president of the Gridiron Club, the oldest association of journalists in Washington.
A native of Wichita, Kansas, she received a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, where she was editor-in-chief of The Daily Northwestern. She received a master’s degree from Columbia University, where she was named a Pulitzer Fellow. She is married to Carl Leubsdorf, a columnist with The Dallas Morning News. They have two sons, Ben and Will.
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Susan Page is the Washington Bureau chief of USA Today, where she writes about the White House and national politics. She is the author of “The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty,” a New York Times bestseller published in 2019. She is now completing a biography of Nancy Pelosi titled “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Arc of Power,” which is being published in April 2021.
Susan has covered six White House administrations and in 2020 is covering her eleventh presidential election. She has interviewed the past nine presidents and reported from six continents and dozens of foreign countries. As a reporter -- first for Newsday and then for USA TODAY -- she drove to Three Mile Island hours after the nuclear mishap was reported, traveled across Southeast Asia to chronicle the exodus of Vietnamese ‘boat people,’ and interviewed physicist Stephen Hawking through his computerized ‘voice.’
She has won every journalism award given for coverage of the White House, including the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency (twice), the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage, and the Merriman Smith Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure. She has served as president of the White House Correspondents Association and as president of the Gridiron Club, the oldest association of journalists in Washington.
A native of Wichita, Kansas, she received a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, where she was editor-in-chief of The Daily Northwestern. She received a master’s degree from Columbia University, where she was named a Pulitzer Fellow. She is married to Carl Leubsdorf, a columnist with The Dallas Morning News. They have two sons, Ben and Will.
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