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Eden Collinsworth

Eden Collinsworth is a writer, essayist, novelist, former media executive, and business consultant. At twenty-eight, she was appointed president and publisher of Arbor House. She left the book business in 1990 to launch the Los Angeles–based lifestyle magazine, BUZZ. In the third decade of her career, she was appointed vice president and director of Cross Media Business Development at the Hearst Corporation. In 2008, Collinsworth became vice president, chief operating officer, and chief-of-staff of The EastWest Institute, an international think tank, and in 2011, she launched Collinsworth & Associates, a Beijing-based consulting company in intercultural communication. She is the author of a novel, It Might Have Been What He Said; of a memoir, I Stand Corrected: How Teaching Manners in China Became Its Own Unforgettable Lesson; and of Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business, What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait, and The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President.

This biography was last updated on 09/02/2025.

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