What is Ruth Gruber?
{{Infobox writer | name = Ruth Gruber | image = Ruth Gruber April 2007.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Ruth Gruber (2007) | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|9|30|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|11|17|1911|9|30|mf=y}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | occupation = Journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, U.S. government official | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = }} '''Ruth Gruber''' (September 30, 1911 &ndash; November 17, 2016) was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian and a former United States government official. She served as a Special Assistant to the [[Secretary of the Interior]] during [[World War II]]. She worked for the [[New York Post]] and for the [[New York Herald]]. Gruber was born in New York City. She studied at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]].<ref>[http://www.womenworking.com/feature/index.php?id=86 Breaking Ground: Dr. Ruth Gruber] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928094558/http://www.womenworking.com/feature/index.php?id=86 |date=2007-09-28 }} (womenworking.com)</ref> Gruber died at her home in New York City on November 17, 2016, aged 105.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/nyregion/ruth-gruber-dead.html?_r=0|title=Ruth Gruber, a Fearless Chronicler of the Jewish Struggle, Dies at 105|author=Robert D. McFadden|date=November 17, 2016|accessdate=November 17, 2016|publisher=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/gruber.html Ruth Gruber] ([[Jewish Virtual Library]]) *[http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_10_006773.php A Circle Completed: Ruth Gruber and Virginia Woolf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702221830/http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_10_00677