Betty Rollin is a contributing correspondent for NBC Nightly
News with Tom Brokaw, and has been a correspondent for NBC's Today. Ms. Betty
Rollin, author of First You Cry, the landmark best-seller that broke the
silence about breast cancer, celebrated her 25th year of survival in the year
2000. Betty Rollin, who gives what she calls "cheery cancer talks", is a speaker
who brings intelligence, inspiration and humor to a subject that is on all
women's minds. When Betty Rollin had a mastectomy in 1975 she was a
correspondent for NBC News, where she still works as a Contributing
Correspondent. She also reports for "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly" on PBS. For
her work in television, Betty Rollin has received both the Emmy and duPont
awards.
In addition to writing First, You Cry, which was
re-published in the fall of 2000 by HarperCollins, Betty is the author of
five other books, including another best-seller, Last Wish, about the
life and death of her mother. Both books were made into television movies:
First, You Cry starring Mary Tyler Moore as Betty and Last Wish starring Patty
Duke. Both books have been published in more than fifteen foreign countries.
Prior to her television career, Betty Rollin was an editor
and staff writer for Vogue and for Look magazines. She has contributed articles
to many national magazines, including the New York Times.
A native New Yorker, Betty Rollin and her husband, Dr. Harold
M. Edwards, a mathematician, live in Manhattan.
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