Dr ruth gruber biography of mahatma
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Dr ruth gruber biography of mahatma
Ruth Gruber
American author and journalist (1911–2016)
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| Born | (1911-09-30)September 30, 1911 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 17, 2016(2016-11-17) (aged 105) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, U.S.
government official |
Ruth Gruber (September 30, 1911 – November 17, 2016) was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and United States government official.
Born in Brooklyn to Russian Jewish immigrants, she was encouraged to pursue her dream of becoming a writer.
At age 20, she received a doctorate from the University of Cologne in Germany, which was awarded for her dissertation—in German—on Virginia Woolf.[1] In the 1930s, she established herself as a journalist writing about women under fascism and communism, traveling as far as the Soviet Arctic.
She also served two years in Alaska as a field representative of the U.S. Department of