Larry Collins was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. After
graduating from the Loomis School and Yale University, he served in
the US Army at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe)
outside Paris, where he met Dominique Lapierre, with whom his name
is associated in five major international bestsellers.
Collins later became a journalist with United Press International
in Paris, Rome and the Middle East, where he joined Newsweek as its
Middle East correspondent in 1958. During the course of two
turbulent years, he covered ten coup d’etats or violent upheavals
in his area and was described in national advertising by his
employers as “the correspondent who always managed to be in a
country just as a revolution or coup d’etat was about to break out
– including one in the Dominican Republic when he was supposed to
be on vacation.”
In April 1961, he returned to Paris as the Newsweek Bureau Chief.
During his Newsweek years, his cover story subjects included the
Shah of Iran, Charles DeGaulle, Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent
and the death of Pope John XXIII.
In the summer of 1962, Larry teamed up with Dominique Lapierre on
the first of their internationally known bestsellers – Is Paris
Burning?, which was followed by four others, all fantastically
successful. Larry has subsequently written three others
bestsellers, equally as successful, and his most current, Tomorrow
Belongs To Us is published in March.
Larry Collins is an avid skier and tennis player. He and his wife
have two grown up sons and divide their time between properties in
London, France and the US.
Larry Collins was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. After
graduating from the Loomis School and Yale University, he served in
the US Army at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe)
outside Paris, where he met Dominique Lapierre, with whom his name
is associated in five major international bestsellers.
Collins later became a journalist with United Press International
in Paris, Rome and the Middle East, where he joined Newsweek as its
Middle East correspondent in 1958. During the course of two
turbulent years, he covered ten coup d’etats or violent upheavals
in his area and was described in national advertising by his
employers as “the correspondent who always managed to be in a
country just as a revolution or coup d’etat was about to break out
– including one in the Dominican Republic when he was supposed to
be on vacation.”
In April 1961, he returned to Paris as the Newsweek Bureau Chief.
During his Newsweek years, his cover story subjects included the
Shah of Iran, Charles DeGaulle, Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent
and the death of Pope John XXIII.
In the summer of 1962, Larry teamed up with Dominique Lapierre on
the first of their internationally known bestsellers – Is Paris
Burning?, which was followed by four others, all fantastically
successful. Larry has subsequently written three others
bestsellers, equally as successful, and his most current, Tomorrow
Belongs To Us is published in March.
Larry Collins is an avid skier and tennis player. He and his wife
have two grown up sons and divide their time between properties in
London, France and the US.
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