Margaret Carlson

For the similarly named publicist, see Margaret Carson.

Margaret B. Carlson
Born	Margaret Bresnahan Approximately 1944
Residence	Washington, D.C.
Nationality	United States
Ethnicity	Irish American[1]
Education	Catholic schools Bishop McDevitt High School (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania State University, B.A. 1966 George Washington University Law School, J.D. 1973
Home town	Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Spouse	Eugene Carlson (1972–divorce)[1]
Children	one daughter, Courtney Anne Carlson (b. 1974 or 1975)
Parents	James Francis Xavier Bresnahan (the former) Mary Catherine McCreary
Relatives	brother Jimmy, 2 yrs older, mentally challenged brother Edmund (b. c:a 1960)
Awards	Belva Ann Lockwood Award (2011)
Notes [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Margaret Carlson is an American journalist and a columnist for Bloomberg News.

Biography

She is best known for being the first female columnist at TIME magazine. Carlson joined Time in January 1988 from The New Republic, where she was managing editor; in 1994, she became the first female columnist in the magazine's history. Carlson covered four presidential elections for TIME, but in 2005 she left for Bloomberg News where she writes a column.

Miss Carlson spent a year after college working at the U.S. Department of Labor and three other agencies. During that year she lived on Yuma Street in Anacostia with her grandmother Nellie McCreary, a maid at the Hotel Washington (Washington, D.C.) and former nurse's aide at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. After that she taught third grade in Watts, Los Angeles, before joining Nader's raiders. After law school, she was briefly a Federal Trade Commission lawyer under Michael Pertschuk, until the Carter administration ended.^[1][9]

Her journalism career has included stints as Washington bureau chief for Esquire, editor of the short lived Washington Weekly, and editor of Legal Times in Washington. She writes a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times. At CNN she was a commentator on Inside Politics, and for 15 years a panelist on The Capital Gang.

Carlson earned a B.A. in English from Penn State University and a law degree from George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

Miss Carlson is an accomplished cook, baker, a serious home handyman, and amateur home improvement contractor. She has one daughter (National Cathedral School, Kenyon College) and lives in Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

• Carlson, Margaret (2003). Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made It to the White House. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-684-80890-0. LCCN 2003-42461. 
• Carlson, Margaret (1999). The canning season. illustrations by Kimanne Smith. Minneapolis, Minn.: Carolrhoda Books. ISBN 1575052601. LCCN 98-14061. http://lccn.loc.gov/98014061. 
• Carlson, Margaret Bresnhan; Shafer, Ronald G. (1973). How to Get Your Car Repaired without Getting Gypped. Harrow books. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0060870354. 

External links

• Margaret Carlson's Blog at HuffPo
• Bloomberg archive
• Margaret Carlson on Facebook (circular reference to this article)

References

"Margaret Carlson". TIME.com. Archived from the original on 2010-05-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20100502002542/http://www.time.com/time/columnist/carlson/bio.html. Retrieved 2011-10-01. 

1. ^ ^{a b c} Carlson, Margaret. Anyone can grow up: how George Bush and I made it to the White House. pp. 1, 2, 9, 14–16. http://books.google.com/books?id=cB4DSC3xpzAC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=margaret+carlson+courtney&source=bl&ots=XU1cBA0PtS&sig=KftzTF8B6tBS_SLOc5xEt-jCy04&hl=en&ei=xHCHTqSZD6Xx0gGfnqTiDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=margaret%20carlson%20courtney&f=false. 
2. ^ "Margaret Carlson" (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library) Contemporary Authors Online Detroit: Gale 2006 Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000165219 http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC2&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000165219&mode=view&userGroupName=fairfax_main&jsid=9b8c2c67783af315aa8aeac2a09c722c. Retrieved 2011-09-30.  Gale Biography In Context.
3. ^ "Honoring Margaret Carlson". George Washington University Law School. March 11, 2011. http://www.law.gwu.edu/News/newsstories/Pages/Carlson.aspx. Retrieved 2011-09-30. "The George Washington Law Alumni Association and the Law Association for Women (LAW) recognized renowned journalist Margaret Carlson, J.D. ’73, with the Belva Ann Lockwood Award, which celebrates the enduring legacy of women’s rights. Carlson writes a weekly column on politics for Bloomberg News, is the Washington editor of The Week, is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, and is a frequent commentator on MSNBC. She also holds the distinction of being the first female columnist for TIME magazine." 
4. ^ Hay, Tina (August 23, 2009). "Margaret Carlson on Bob Novak". The Penn Stater Magazine. Penn State Alumni Association. http://pennstatermag.com/2009/08/23/margaret-carlson-on-bob-novak/. Retrieved 2011-09-30. "Margaret Carlson ’66 ... was Margaret Bresnahan as a Penn State undergrad) ..." 
5. ^ Woodruff, Judy (June 09, 2003). "Margaret Carlson: 'Anyone Can Grow Up"". AllPolitics. http://articles.cnn.com/2003-06-09/politics/judy.page.carlson_1_bad-guys-margaret-carlson-white-house?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS. Retrieved 2011-10-01. 
6. ^ Carlson, Margaret (May 9, 2003). "Diary : A weeklong electronic journal". Slate.com. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts_and_life/diary/features/2003/_28/entry_5.html. Retrieved 2011-0-01. "Until I was out of college, I knew the hospitality industry from the back stairs only; I would meet my grandmother after her shift as a maid at the Hotel Washington. An Eloise manquée, I was captivated by the smell of starched linen, the minute perfection of toilet paper folded into a tiny triangle, the standing ashtray imprinted with a coat of arms. ... I met Chris [Matthews]and Kathy soon after I arrived in Washington. Along with Kathy's mother, I cooked their wedding rehearsal dinner 20 years ago. Courtney, around six at the time <nowiki>[1980], separated 120 eggs for chocolate mousse cake. Two years ago, on May 5, Chris and Kathy returned the gift by hosting Courtney's rehearsal dinner at their house.... my brother Jimmy got the job he's been hoping for. Although he can't recognize numbers well enough to match grocery carts with cars in the pick-up lane like the rest of the baggers, the Giant grocery in Camp Hill saw that he could make up for that in other ways." 
7. ^ "WEDDINGS; Courtney Carlson, David Yarkin". New York Times. May 06, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/style/weddings-courtney-carlson-david-yarkin.html. Retrieved 2011-10-01. "Courtney Anne Carlson, the daughter of Margaret Carlson and Eugene Carlson, both of Washington, was married there yesterday to David Paul Yarkin, the son of Reesa and Larry Yarkin of Framingham, Mass. Judge Marjorie O. Rendell of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia officiated at the home of Katharine Graham, the former publisher of The Washington Post, a family friend.
   Ms. Carlson, 26, is keeping her name." 
8. ^ "Bios - Margaret Carlson". CNN. http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/bios/frames/time/dc.bureau/carlson.html. Retrieved 2011-10-01. "native of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania" 
9. ^ Carlson, Margaret (May 4, 2003). "Excerpt: 'Anyone Can Grow Up'". Good Morning America. p. 10 of 19. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125189&page=10. Retrieved 2011-10-01. 

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Name	Margaret Carlson
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Short description	American Journalist
Date of birth	circa 1944
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