Susan Page is the Washington Bureau chief of USA TODAY, where she writes about the White House and national politics. She is the New York Times best-selling author of a series of biographies of formidable women: The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters (Simon and Schuster, 2024). Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (Twelve, 2021). The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty (Twelve, 2019). Her fourth book The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History, is being published by HarperCollins in April 2026.

Susan covered her twelfth presidential election in 2024. She has covered eight presidential administration and interviewed the past ten presidents, from Richard Nixon through Donald Trump — seven sitting presidents, and three after they had left the White House. She has reported from six continents and dozens of foreign countries. As a reporter -- first for Newsday and then for USA TODAY -- she drove to Three Mile Island hours after the nuclear mishap was reported, traveled across Southeast Asia to chronicle the exodus of Vietnamese ‘boat people,’ and interviewed physicist Stephen Hawking through his computerized ‘voice.’

She has won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency (twice), the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage, and the Merriman Smith Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure. She has served as president of the White House Correspondents Association and as president of the Gridiron Club, the oldest association of journalists in Washington. She was the moderator of the vice-presidential debate in 2020 between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. (Yes, that was the one with the fly.)

A native of Wichita, Kansas, she received a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, where she was editor-in-chief of The Daily Northwestern. She received a master’s degree from Columbia University, where she was a Pulitzer Fellow. She is married to Carl Leubsdorf, a veteran journalist whose column is distributed by the Chicago Tribune service. They have two sons, Ben and Will.

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