M.G. Lord

Template:Short description Mary G. Lord (born November 18, 1955) is an American author, cultural critic, and investigative journalist. She was a political cartoonist and columnist for Newsday. She is an associate professor of the practice of English at the University of Southern California.

She produces the podcast, LA Made: The Barbie Tapes with Antonia Cereijido.

Early life and education

Lord was born in 1955 and grew up in southern California. Her father was a rocket engineer and her mother, although a chemistry graduate, "quit work to keep house for my father".

Lord has a BA (1977) in politics, the graphic arts and letters from Yale University and an MFA (2016) in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. While a student, she was a cartoonist for the Yale Daily News. After graduating, she worked drawing political cartoons for the Wall Street Journal, then the Chicago Tribune, and then moved to Newsday.

Books

• The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice (2012) (about Elizabeth Taylor)
• Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science (2005)
• Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll (1994) (About the Barbie doll)
• Mean Sheets: Political Cartoons by M.G. Lord (1982)

Book chapters

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Further reading

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