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She's the left-winger you hate to love, and love to hate. Maralyn Lois Polak's sassy, smart, weekly WND columns span the spectrum of topics from political satire to personal revelation, as do her speeches.

The award-winning journalist-screenwriter-novelist-editor-spoken word artist – who describes herself as an "escapee" from the mainstream media – provides compelling perspective on the "mass manufacture and perverse packaging of slick, sordid, sensational non-stories that distract Americans from a bogus government hijacking our individual rights and destroying our country."

With architect Benjamin Nia, she recently completed a short documentary film released on DVD through BuyIndies.com about the threatened demolition of a historic neighborhood, "MY HOMETOWN: Preservation or Development?"

Polak is also a seasoned veteran of TV and radio, as both guest and fill-in talk-show host. Author of several books including the acclaimed collection of literary profiles, "THE WRITER AS CELEBRITY: Intimate Interviews," the former communications teacher has made hundreds of public appearances at venues ranging from conventions to colleges to cafes and classrooms.

Her award-winning professional journalistic career includes a long stint as nationally syndicated weekly celebrity interview columnist for Knight-Ridder, writing more than 1,200 published celebrity profiles, including Jerry Falwell, Bay Buchanan, Ronald Reagan's daughters, Buckminster Fuller, Camille Paglia, Sophia Loren and Oprah Winfrey.

As a speechwriter for the trade union movement, Polak traveled to El Salvador and Guatemala as part of her political education, and once even proofread a Chinese mathematics textbook.

Equally adept at delivering either serious or humorous talks, she's also in demand as an inspirational speaker, especially interested in sharing her own upbeat experiences on how alternative healing can help families transcend the traumas of suicide, AIDS and violent crime.

Polak's numerous book reviews, essays and opinion editorials have appeared in South American Explorer, the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Mirabella, Interview, the Washington Post, Inside Magazine, the San Jose Mercury and more.

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