Ahead Of Time: My Early Years As A Foreign Correspondent; Author: Gruber, Ruth; Paperback

Author: Gruber, Ruth
1st Carroll & Graf trade pbk. ed; Paperback; B&w Photographs, Maps
329 pages
Published: March 2001
Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
ISBN: 0786708360

Long before feminism became a potent force in our time, Ruth Gruber was already blazing a trail for later generations of women. Now in paperback for the first time, this captivating memoir covers the first 25 years of an inspiring life, including her experiences in Nazi Germany and her stint as a foreign correspondent at a gulag in the Soviet Arctic. Gruber's early life will be depictedin a CBS mini-series in February 2001 starring Natasha Richardson, Anne Bancroft, and Martin Landau. Photos & maps.My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent. A captivating memoir written with warmth, compassion and humour. The author describes her youth in Brooklyn, her education at the University of Cologne on the eve of Hitler's reign of terror, and her trips to the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorship.