Maureen Callahan

Maureen Callahan is an American columnist for the Daily Mail known for her opinion pieces regarding politics, feminism, pop culture, and current events.

Early life and education
Callahan is of Irish-American heritage and grew up on Long Island. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Career
Callahan began working for Sassy magazine and MTV at age 17. Music journalist Marc Spitz wrote about going to a Michael Jackson concert and sharing the experience of growing up in the 1980s with Callahan in his book Poseur: A memoir of downtown New York in the '90s.

She has written for Sassy, Spin, New York magazine, MTV, and Vanity Fair. She authored Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion, a 2014 non-fiction account of the fashion industry, and Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga in 2010.

Callahan worked as a writer, editor and later columnist for the New York Post from 2002 to September 2022. She has worked as a columnist for Daily Mail since October 2022.

She received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor award as co-author of "Don't Drink the Brown Water", a piece in Spin magazine about what led to riots and violence at Woodstock '99. Callahan was interviewed as a part of Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage a documentary produced by HBO.

In 2016, Irish America listed Callahan as one of its "Top 50 Power Women" of the year. In 2019, she published the true crime book American Predator.

In 2024, Callahan published Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed.