Eden Collinsworth

{{Short description|American businesswoman and writer}} {{use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Eden Collinsworth | image = Eden Collinsworth.jpg | image_size = | birth_date = | birth_place = | known_for = | education = BA, Bennington College | occupation = Businesswoman and writer | spouse = {{marriage|William Hamilton|1986|2003}} | children = 1 | website = {{URL|www.edencollinsworth.com}} }}

'''Eden Collinsworth''' is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction, whose career has been in media and international business.

==Career==

Collinsworth began her career in book publishing at Doubleday & Company. She joined Arbor House Book Publishing Company in 1976, and was named its president and publisher in 1983.<ref name="nytimes-1996/09/13">{{Cite news|last=Meredith|first=Robyn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/13/business/buzz-enterprises-promotes-four.html|title=Buzz Enterprises Promotes Four|date=1996-09-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-04-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

{{anchor|Buzz Magazine LA}} Collinsworth founded Buzz, Inc.<ref name="nytimes-1996/09/13"/> In October 1990, with two partners, Allan Mayer,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-08-ls-56472-story.html|website=Los Angeles Times|title=The Battle for L.A.|first=Irene|last=Lacher|date=May 8, 1997|accessdate=June 23, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/5224882|website=Bloomberg.com|title=Allan Mayer|accessdate=June 23, 2021}}</ref> and Susan Gates,<ref name="nytimes-1996-chief-to-leave-buzz">{{cite news |title=Editor in Chief to Leave Buzz Magazine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/18/business/editor-in-chief-to-leave-buzz-magazine.html |access-date=5 June 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=18 October 1996}}</ref> Collinsworth, as president and CEO, launched ''Buzz Magazine'', a Los Angeles-based monthly, ''city magazine''.<ref name="nytimes-1996-chief-to-leave-buzz"/>

From 1999 to 2008, Collinsworth was vice president of The Hearst Corporation and its director of cross media business development<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hearst.com/news/newsarchive1999.html|title=Archived News - 1999|date=2007-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070520050004/http://www.hearst.com/news/newsarchive1999.html|access-date=2020-04-18|archive-date=2007-05-20}}</ref> responsible for identifying business opportunities across all Hearst divisions, including magazines, newspapers, cable, syndication, and broadcast.{{Citation needed|date=September 2025}}

In 2008, Collinsworth became vice president, COO and chief of staff of The EastWest Institute, an international think tank.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ewi.info/our-people/alumni|title=Alumni {{!}} EastWest Institute|date=2012-05-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506145245/http://www.ewi.info/our-people/alumni|access-date=2020-04-18|url-status=usurped|archive-date=2012-05-06}}</ref>

In 2011, Collinsworth launched Collinsworth & Associates, a Beijing-based consulting company, which specializes in intercultural communication. She is the author of a book on the subject published by Xiron in China.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

==Publications== *''It Might Have Been What He Said'' (2006) – a novel *''The Strangeness of Men and Women'' – a play *''I Stand Corrected: How Teaching Manners in China Became Its Own Unforgettable Lesson'' (2014) - a memoir *''Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business'' (2017) – non-fiction *''What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo's da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait'' (2022) - non-fiction *''The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President'' (2025) - non-fiction

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