Susan Page is the Washington Bureau chief of USA TODAY, where she writes about the White House and national politics. She is also the best-selling author of several books, including The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters; Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power, and The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty. Her latest book, The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand that Shaped the World, is being published by HarperCollins in April 2026.
In 2024, Susan covered her twelfth presidential election and is now covering her eighth White House administration. She has interviewed the past ten presidents (three after they left office), and she has served as president of the White House Correspondents Association and of the Gridiron Club, the oldest association of journalists in Washington. Among her awards are the White House Correspondents Association Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure; the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage; the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence. In 2020, she moderated the vice-presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. (Yes, that was the one with the fly.)
Susan, a native of Wichita, Kansas, has a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from Columbia University. She lives in Washington with her husband, Carl Leubsdorf. They have two sons, Ben and Will.