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Dorothy Rabinowitz is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. She writes "Critic at Large," an occasional column for the Journal's editorial page, which also appears on OpinionJournal.com as "Dorothy Rabinowitz's Media Log." She won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary for her 2000 articles on American culture and society.

Ms. Rabinowitz joined the Journal in June 1990 as an editorial page writer and TV critic. She was named to the paper's editorial board in May 1996.

Before joining the Journal, Ms. Rabinowitz was a freelance writer, syndicated columnist and commentator on New York's WWOR-TV News. She is the author of "No Crueler Tyrannies," a book about false child sex-abuse cases, published in 2004 by Wall Street Journal Books; "New Lives," a book about survivors of death camps, published in 1976 by Alfred Knopf; and "Home Life," a book about old age, published by Macmillan in 1970.

Ms. Rabinowitz is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. She received the 1997 Champion of Justice Award from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in recognition of her journalistic achievements and commending her in particular for her writing on false sexual abuse charges. In 1993 she won the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors in the commentary category.

A New Yorker, Ms. Rabinowitz earned a bachelor's degree from Queens College and did postgraduate work at New York University, while teaching in the English departments at NYU and the Pratt Institute.