Cindy Adams - Writing Career

Writing Career

Since 1979, Adams has written a gossip column for the New York Post, a New York City newspaper. She contributed to Sunday Today in New York, a now-defunct newscast on WNBC television. She had previously contributed twice a week on WNBC's Live at Five newscast until it took on a new format on March 12, 2007.

Her husband wrote a newspaper column for the Long Island Press on Long Island, New York, and later the New York Post. She also wrote for local papers, eventually writing for the New York Post at the same time as her husband. In 1965 she co-wrote an English-language autobiography of Indonesia's President Sukarno, about whom she wrote another book two years later. In 1975 she published a biography of Jolie Gabor, the mother of the Gabor sisters. Among those whom she interviewed in 1970 was Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. She later became friendly with Imelda Marcos, widow of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.

She became a syndicated newspaper columnist in 1981; she was an original contributor to the syndicated, tabloid-television series A Current Affair and has appeared often on Good Morning America, a morning news-and-talk show on the ABC television network. In 1990, Adams served as a panelist on To Tell the Truth, an NBC television network game show.