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Betty Rollin
Contributing Correspondent
Award-winning journalist and acclaimed author Betty Rollin began her television career in 1972 as a reporter for the NBC newsmagazine, CHRONOLOG. A year later she was named a contributing correspondent for NBC News, where she reported on human interest stories for TODAY and NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, including a series on the American Indians of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, which won both the Alfred I. duPont and Emmy award.
From 1982-1984, Rollin served as a contributing correspondent for ABC New's NIGHTLINE. She left that position to write "Last Wish," the moving story of the suicide of her terminally ill mother. One critic called the best-selling book, published in 1985 and again in 1999, "a document of personal compassion and public importance" and ABC turned it into a 1992 TV movie starring Patty Duke and Maureen Stapleton. In addition, Rollin authored five other books, including "First, You Cry," a personal account of her battle with breast cancer and subsequent mastectomy. Published in 1976 and recently re-published in honor of the author's 25th "cancer anniversary," it also received wide critical acclaim and was made into a television movie with Mary Tyler Moore playing the title role. Her most recently published book is "Here's The Bright Side: Of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce and Other Bum Raps."
Prior to her television career, Betty Rollin was an associate feature editor and staff writer for Vogue magazine. Until 1971, she served as a senior editor for Look magazine and has been a contributing writer for several national publications, The New York Times. As a contributing correspondent for RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, Rollin has been honored with prestigious Gracie Allen Award, the CINE Golden Eagle, the New York Festival and the Wilbur Award for "Impossible Choices." This report also received a Silver Angel Award from Excellence in Media along with Rollin's segment on "Faith and Family in America: Religion and Parenting." She also garnered a Bronze Apple Award from the National Education Media Network for "Black Women Preachers."
A native New Yorker, Rollin is a graduate of Fieldston Ethical Culture School in Riverdale, New York and Sarah Lawrence College. She lives with her husband, Dr. Harold M. Edwards, a mathematician, in Manhattan.
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