Barbara Ehrenreich Joins The New York Times Op-Ed Page as Guest Columnist

Business Wire, June 29, 2004

NEW YORK -- Barbara Ehrenreich, an award-winning author, will pen a column for The New York Times Op-Ed page as a guest columnist for one month beginning July 1. Her column will appear on Thursdays and Sundays in place of Thomas L. Friedman's column while he is on sabbatical to finish a book about geopolitics. Gail Collins, editor of the editorial page, made the announcement today.

"We're very excited that Barbara agreed to spend next month on our pages," Ms. Collins said. "She's a brilliant social critic, historian and political commentator."

Ms. Ehrenreich, whose articles, reviews and essays have been widely published, received the Sydney Hillman Award for Journalism and a Brill's Content "Honorable Mention" (1999) for a chapter of her book, "Nickel and Dimed," (Owl Books, 2002) which appeared in Harper's in January 1999. A second essay entitled "Maid to Order," which grew out of her research for this book, was also published in Harper's (2000).

Ms. Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War" (Metropolitan, 1997) and a collection of essays entitled "The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed" (Random House Inc., 1990). She also wrote "Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class" (Pantheon Books, 1989), which was nominated for a National Book Critics' Award in 1989; "The Snarling Citizen" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995); "The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment" (Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1983); "The American Health Empire: Power, Profits and Politics" (Vintage Books, 1971), with John Ehrenreich; "Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers" (Feminist Press, 1972); "For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women" (Anchor Press, 1978), with Deirdre English; "Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex" (Random House Inc., 1986), with Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs; "The Mean Season: The Attack on Social Welfare" (Pantheon Books, 1987), with Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward, and Fred Block; and a novel, "Kipper's Game" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993). She has most recently co-edited a collection of essays with Arlie Russell Hochschild called "Global Woman" (Metropolitan, 2002). Her essay in Harper's "Welcome to Cancerland" was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 2003.

Ms. Ehrenreich has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Ford Foundation Award for Humanistic Perspectives on Contemporary Society (1982), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987-88), and a grant for Research and Writing from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1995). She shared the National Magazine Award for Excellence in Reporting (1980) and has received honorary degrees from Reed College, the State University of New York at Old Westbury, the College of Wooster in Ohio and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. In 1998 and in 2000 she taught essay-writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and is teaching in the Women's Studies Program at Brandeis University in 2004.

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