Passing: Molly Ivins

From NPR News:

by Robert Siegel and Wade Goodwyn:

Syndicated columnist and best-selling author Molly Ivins has died of breast cancer at the age of 62. As editor of the Texas Observer during the 1970s, Ivins became famous for her biting wit as she chronicled the political antics of the Texas legislature.

A liberal who often skewered the political establishment, Ivins' work appeared in 300 newspapers.

While she got her start writing in Minnesota as a police reporter, Ivins became famous writing
about Texas as an editor for the Observer, an independent political journal. "I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics", she once said of her time covering the good-ol'-boy networks of state politics.

Her book Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? brought her national recognition. She later became a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, and her syndicated column reached 340 newspapers, many in small markets around the country.

Diagnosed with cancer in 1999, she continued to write until her death.

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