Eden Collinsworth

Infobox Person
name = Eden Collinsworth


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birth_date = birth date and age|1952|8|4
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residence = New York
nationality = American
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education = BA, Bennington College
employer = Hearst Corporation
occupation = Executive Officer
title = Vice President and Director, Cross Media
spouse = William Hamilton (1987-2004)
children = 1
website = http://www.edencollinsworth.com/

Eden Collinsworth (born August 4th, 1952) is a writer and executive officer of the Hearst Corporation.

Career

After graduating from Bennington College in 1975, she began her career as an assistant at Doubleday Publishing. She then went on to become President of Arbor House [Citation| last=McDowell| first=Edwin| title=Donald Fine is Dismissed as Arbor House Publisher| newspaper=The New York Times| year=1983| date=October 1983| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E6DD1031F93BA25753C1A960958260] , whose writers included Elmore Leonard and Anthony Burgess. In 1990, Ms. Collinsworth left Arbor House to begin Buzz Magazine, which she headed as CEO until it was bought out by Los Angeles Magazine in 1998. [Citation| last=Rivero| first=Enrique| title=It's True: Buzz Folds; Rival to buy Assets| newspaper=Los Angeles Daily News| year=1998| date=April 1998| url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/IT'S+TRUE:+BUZZ+FOLDS%3B+RIVAL+TO+BUY+ASSETS-a083821186] She was subsequently hired by the Hearst Corporation in 1999 as Director of Cross Media Business Development, a position which she retains to this day [cite press release| title = Eden Collinsworth Named Director of Cross Media Business| publisher = The Hearst Corporation| date = 1999-01-11| url = http://www.hearst.com/news/newsarchive1999.html| accessdate =2007-11-14] .

Ms. Collinsworth has also recently begun her career as a writer with her debut novel, "It Might Have Been what he Said", the movie rights of which have recently been co-opted by Wendy Finerman and David E. Kelley [cite web| title = Eden Collinsworth's Homepage Entry| url = http://www.edencollinsworth.com/content/index.asp| accessdate = 2007-11-14] .

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