Mary Ann Akers is a political gossip columnist. She currently writes The Sleuth for washingtonpost.com and contributes to the print edition of the Washington Post. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. Before joining washingtonpost.com, Akers wrote Heard on the Hill, Roll Call's gossip column. Prior to Akers' two-year stint at Roll Call, she was a reporter for National Public Radio for nearly four years, covering everything from politics and Congress to cultural trends and aviation. She has also been a reporter for the Washington Times and for National Journal’s CongressDaily. She is from High Point, N.C and graduated from Guilford College. In January 2007, Akers married investigative journalist Michael Isikoff.
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“Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I want that head so sanitary and squared away that the Virgin Mary herself would be proud to go in there and take a dump.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“Her fist of a face died clenched on a round pain;
And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.
These cloud-sopped, marble hands, this monumental
Argument of the hewn voice, gesture and psalm,
Storm me forever over her grave”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)