Page spoke to National Press Foundation Paul Miller Fellows in January 2022: Susan Page’s Five Lessons for Journalists.

She also spoke to NPF Women in Politics fellows in April 2024: Trailblazing Women Journalists Urge Equity in Politics and Journalism. 

Susan Page is the Washington Bureau chief of USA Today, where she writes about the White House and national politics. She is the author of two biographies, both New York Times bestsellers: “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,” and “The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty.” She is now working on a biography of Barbara Walters, to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2023.

In 2020, Susan moderated the vice-presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. She frequently appears as an analyst on PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, NPR and other TV and radio networks. She has covered eleven presidential elections and is now covering her seventh White House administration. She has interviewed the past ten presidents (three after they left the White House and one before he moved in) and reported from six continents and dozens of foreign countries. She has won every journalism award given specifically for coverage of the presidency. She has served as president of the White House Correspondents Association and of the Gridiron Club, the oldest association of journalists in Washington.

A native of Wichita, Kansas, she received a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern and a master’s degree from Columbia. She and her husband, Carl Leubsdorf, have two sons, Ben and Will.