Danielle Crittenden
Encyclopedia
Danielle Ann Crittenden Frum, who writes under the name Danielle Crittenden (born April 20, 1963, Toronto
, Canada
), is a Canadian author and journalist
.
She is the daughter of Max Crittenden, a former editor with the now-defunct Toronto Telegram
, and her mother is magazine writer Yvonne Crittenden. Her stepfather is journalist and former Toronto Sun
editor Peter Worthington
. She has been critical of the feminist movement and is considered to be a social conservative. Crittenden is the editor of The Women’s Quarterly magazine. She is married to former George W. Bush
special assistant and speechwriter David Frum
and resides in Washington DC.
Since May 2005, she has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post
. In October 2010 she wrote a controversial article about her refusal to get on an airplane because she was uncomfortable flying with a pair of young Middle Eastern men. In September 2011 it was announced that Crittenden had taken the job of managing editor of blogs at Huffington Post Canada, an edition of The Huffington Post.
She is a regular contributor to the National Post
newspaper.
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
), is a Canadian author and journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
.
She is the daughter of Max Crittenden, a former editor with the now-defunct Toronto Telegram
Toronto Telegram
The Toronto Evening Telegram was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon newspaper published in Toronto from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at both the federal and provincial level. The paper competed with the liberal Toronto Star...
, and her mother is magazine writer Yvonne Crittenden. Her stepfather is journalist and former Toronto Sun
Toronto Sun
The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its daily Sunshine Girl feature and for what it sees as a populist conservative editorial stance.-History:...
editor Peter Worthington
Peter Worthington
Peter Worthington is a Canadian journalist. A foreign correspondent with the Toronto Telegram newspaper from 1956, Worthington was an eyewitness to the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963, and can be seen in photographs of the event. He remained with the Telegram until it folded in 1971...
. She has been critical of the feminist movement and is considered to be a social conservative. Crittenden is the editor of The Women’s Quarterly magazine. She is married to former George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
special assistant and speechwriter David Frum
David Frum
David J. Frum is a Canadian American journalist active in both the United States and Canadian political arenas. A former economic speechwriter for President George W. Bush, he is also the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency...
and resides in Washington DC.
Since May 2005, she has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...
. In October 2010 she wrote a controversial article about her refusal to get on an airplane because she was uncomfortable flying with a pair of young Middle Eastern men. In September 2011 it was announced that Crittenden had taken the job of managing editor of blogs at Huffington Post Canada, an edition of The Huffington Post.
She is a regular contributor to the National Post
National Post
The National Post is a Canadian English-language national newspaper based in Don Mills, a district of Toronto. The paper is owned by Postmedia Network Inc. and is published Mondays through Saturdays...
newspaper.
Works
- What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman, 1999
- Amanda Bright@Home, 2003
- The President's Secret IMs, 2007 (Gallery Books), ISBN 978-1416947493
- A Polish cookbook, coauthored with Anne ApplebaumAnne ApplebaumAnne Elizabeth Applebaum is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has been an editor at The Economist, and a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post...
, to be published in 2012