Who

Coulter is a bomb-throwing conservative pundit and bestselling author of books that accuse liberals of being godless heathens who want to undermine America.

Backstory

Born in New York and raised in Connecticut, Coulter attended Cornell and Michigan Law, where she says her conservative views made her an outcast with her fellow students. (Presumably she found a more welcoming crowd when she joined the local chapter of the Federalist Society.) After putting in some time as a clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals and as a lawyer in private practice, she found her way on to the legal team representing Paula Jones in her sexual harassment suit against President Clinton. Coulter's subsequent book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, tapped into the deep current of white Republican victimhood and became a Times bestseller. She's since become a full-time anger-peddler thanks to her books, regular appearances on TV talk shows, columns in a handful of newspapers and magazines, and busy speaking schedule.

The rail-thin reactionary has published half a dozen more books: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (2002), Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (2003), How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (2004), and Godless: The Church of Liberalism (2006). Coulter's most recent book, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, was published in October 2007.

Drama

Always good for a classy quote, Coulter publicly mocked the Sept. 11th widows; referred to Middle Easterners as "towelheads"; said Jews should convert to Christianity; suggested that "America might be better off if women lost the right to vote"; and called former Senator John Edwards a "faggot." Perhaps Edwards should be content that she didn't suggest his demise. In 2002, Coulter told the Observer's George Gurley, "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."

All that bloviating has earned her plenty of hatred on the left—and no small amount of controversy. Most recently, critics raised questions about whether she'd plagiarized material in her syndicated columns and books. Despite some rather obvious examples—she reproduced one sentence from a newspaper article practically verbatim in one of her books—neither her publisher nor her syndication service decided it merited any punishment.

Personal

Coulter has never been married, although the tall blonde has never lacked in the romance department. Over the years, she's dated conservative Dinesh D'Souza, mag publisher Bob Guccione Jr., and country singer Rob Ryan, who is 20 years her junior. In 2007 she was involved with Andrew Stein, the former city council president and a lifelong Democrat. "What can I say, opposites attract," Stein told the Post. But not for long, apparently—the couple broke up after just a few months. Coulter divides her time between an apartment on East 77th Street, which she purchased for $1.5 million in 2003, a home in Los Angeles, and a pad in Palm Beach she bought for $1.8 million in 2005.

No joke

Coulter routinely lies about her age to reporters. She was born in 1961, but insists that she's a few years younger.