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Diana West (b. 1961 in Hollywood, CA ) is a nationally syndicated

Syndicated columnist

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 conservative American columnist and author. Her weekly column for the Washington Examiner is syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association and appears in about 120 newspapers. She is the author of the book The Death of the Grown Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization (St. Martin's Press, 2007).

West has contributed essays and features to many publications including: The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

, The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of...

, The Washington Post

The Washington Post

The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

, The New Criterion

The New Criterion

The New Criterion is a New York-based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. It has sections for criticism of poetry, theater, art, music, the media, and books...

, The Public Interest

The Public Interest

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, and Women's Quarterly. She has also written fiction for The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly

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 and has been a columnist for The Washington Times and Scripps Howard News Service. As a CNN contributor, West frequently appeared on the Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs

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 shows. She blogs at dianawest.net and Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace.

External links

• Personal website
• Feature Bank Diana West Profile
• Biography and links to syndicated columns at Townhall.com
  Townhall.com
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