Katherine Stewart (journalist)

Katherine Stewart is an American journalist and author. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Reuters, The Atlantic, Bloomberg View, Religion Dispatches, Newsweek International, Rolling Stone, The New York Observer, The Nation, AlterNet, The Daily Beast, Santa Barbara Magazine, and others. Her most recent book, The Good News Club (2012) focuses on religion and public education.

Early life and career

She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She started her career in journalism working for investigative reporter Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice.

Work

Stewart writes about controversies over religious freedom, separation of church and state, public education, science education, climate science, the public funding of faith-based initiatives, and bullying in schools.

She is the author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children (PublicAffairs, 2012). She has also published two novels, The Yoga Mamas (2005) and Class Mothers (2006) with Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Books. Along with music journalist Evelyn McDonnell, she cowrote the book about the musical Rent in 1997.

Awards

• 2014 Americans United Person of the Year

• "Investigative Journalist Named AU's 'Person Of The Year' At Meeting". au.org. December 2014.