Gail Collins joined The New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an Op-Ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times’s editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and began a leave in order to finish her new book: "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present." She returned to The Times as a columnist in July 2007.
Before joining The Times, Ms. Collins was a columnist at New York Newsday and the New York Daily News, and a reporter for United Press International. Her first jobs in journalism were in Connecticut, where she founded the Connecticut State News Bureau, which provided coverage of the state capitol and Connecticut politics. When she sold it in 1977, the CSNB was the largest news service of its kind in the country, with more than 30 weekly and daily newspaper chains.
Besides "When Everything Changed," published in October of 2009 by Little, Brown, Ms. Collins is the author of "America's Women," "Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics," and "The Millennium Book," which she co-authored with her husband, Dan Collins.
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How about a refresher on all the books written by Mitt Romney? Fortunately, there are only two.
ABOUT: TURNAROUND: CRISIS, LEADERSHIP, AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES (BOOK); NO APOLOGY: THE CASE FOR AMERICAN GREATNESS (BOOK)
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Abortion is controversial. Contraception isn’t. Or at least it shouldn’t be.
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Donald Trump has written a letter complaining about me. ''Her storytelling ability and word usage (coming from me, who has written many bestsellers), is not at a very high level,'' he penned.
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It’s very difficult to be a civilian in the world of science.
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