Gail Collins Coming to Cincinnati

Join us on Thursday, March 12, 2009 beginning at 7:30 pm at the Millennium Hotel for an evening with Gail Collins.

Tickets are available from Planned Parenthood for a minimum donation of $25.  To reserve your ticket, contact Laurie Housemeyer at 513.824.7824.

A native of Cincinnati, 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 editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and took a leave in order to finish a sequel to her book, America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines. 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.

Born in Cincinnati as Gail Gleason, Collins has a degree in journalism from Marquette University and an M.A. in government from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to The New York Times, Collins wrote for the New York Daily News, Newsday, Connecticut Business Journal, United Press International, and the Associated Press in New York City. She was also a journalism instructor at Southern Connecticut State University. She is married to Dan Collins of CBS.

Beyond her work as a journalist, Collins has published several books in addition to America's Woman. She co-authored The Millennium Book with her husband Dan Collins. And in 1998, she wrote the immensely appealing book, Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics.