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M.G. Lord

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Mary G. Lord (born November 18, 1955)[1] 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.[2][3]

She produces the podcast, LA Made: The Barbie Tapes with Antonia Cereijido.[4]

Early life and education

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Lord was born in 1955 and grew up in southern California.[1] Her father was a rocket engineer and her mother, although a chemistry graduate, "quit work to keep house for my father".[5]

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.[2] 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.[1]

Books

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  • The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice (2012)[6] (about Elizabeth Taylor)
  • Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science (2005)[7]
  • Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll (1994)[8] (About the Barbie doll)
  • Mean Sheets: Political Cartoons by M.G. Lord (1982)[9]

Book chapters

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  • Lord, M.G. (2012). "Cold Warrior's Daughter". In Westwick, Peter J. (ed.). Blue sky metropolis: the aerospace century in Southern California. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press [u.a.] ISBN 978-0-87328-249-9.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Esquire Register: The Best of the New Generation of Men and Women under Forty Who Are Changing America". Esquire. December 1984.
  2. ^ a b "M G Lord". USC Dornsife. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  3. ^ "M.G. Lord". LAist.
  4. ^ Detrow, Scott (July 16, 2023). "New podcast miniseries is packed with little-known Barbie history". NPR. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Blue Sky Metropolis". MG LORD. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  6. ^ Reviews for The Accidental Feminist:
  7. ^ Reviews for Astro Turf:
  8. ^ Reviews for Forever Barbie:
  9. ^ "Paperbacks: New and noteworthy". The New York Times. 1982-10-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-17.

Further reading

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