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Born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn on September 30, , at an early age she had expressed her wish to become a writer.

Ruth gruber obituary

She was the first foreign journalist to report from the Soviet Arctic, interviewing prisoners in Stalin's Gulag.

Ruth Gruber was born on September 30, , in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from NYU at 15 and in received her M.A. in German and English literature.

Ruth Gruber

American author and journalist (1911–2016)

Ruth Gruber
Gruber in 2007
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