Ruth Gruber

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born

September 30, 1911 in New York, The United States

gender

female

genre

History, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Ruth Gruber is an award-winning Jewish American journalist, photographer, and humanitarian. Born in Brooklyn in 1911, she became the youngest PhD in the world and went on to author nineteen books, including the National Jewish Book Award–winning biography Raquela (1978). She also wrote several memoirs documenting her astonishing experiences, among them Ahead of Time (1991), Inside of Time (2002), and Haven (1983), which documents her role in the rescue of one thousand refugees from Europe and their safe transport to America. Gruber lives in New York City.

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Books by Ruth Gruber

Average rating: 4.18 · 305 ratings · 57 reviews · 30 distinct works

	Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America by Ruth Gruber, Dava Sobel (Foreword by) 4.20 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Raquela 4.15 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation by Ruth Gruber, Richard Holbrooke (Introduction) 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Inside of Time: My Journey from Alaska to Israel 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Rescue: The Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating: