Cathy Young Biography

Cathy Young, a writer and journalist, was born in Moscow, Russia in 1963, and came to the United States in 1980. She is a graduate of Rutgers University.

From 1993 to 2000, Young wrote a weekly column for The Detroit News. From 2000 to 2007, she was a weekly columnist for The Boston Globe (where she is still a frequent op-ed contributor) as well as a monthly columnist for Reason magazine.

At present, she is a weekly columnist for Newsday, a contributing editor/feature writer for Reason and a regular columnist for RealClearPolitics.com.

She has written for numerous other publications, from The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to Salon.com and The Weekly Standard.

Young is the author of two books: "Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood" (1989) and "Ceasefire: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality" (1999). Young has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including "To the Contrary" (PBS), "Talk of the Nation" and "Fresh Air" (NPR) and "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News). She is also a frequent speaker on college campuses and has participated in conferences including the 2012 Battle of Ideas in London.

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