Ruth Grosman Winter (born May 29, 1930) is an American journalist and

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Biography

Ruth Grosman was born in

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.Matthews, Tracey L. (2005). ''Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Vol. 139''. Thomson/Gale. pp. 447–449 She graduated B.A. from Upsala College in 1951, and obtained a Master of Science from

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in 1989. Winter worked as a journalist (1951–1955) and science editor (1956–1959) for the ''

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''.Taft, William H. (2016). ''Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Journalists''.

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. pp. 373–374. She worked as a columnist for the '' Los Angeles Times Syndicate'' (1974–1978) and from 1981, the '' Register and Tribune Syndicate''. She has written on

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, health and medicine. Winter is a past President of the

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(1977–1978). She married Arthur Winter, a neurosurgeon, on June 16, 1955; he died in 2011."Dr. Arthur Winter, Renowned Brain Surgeon"

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. Retrieved March 1, 2020. She has several children.

Awards and honors

She received awards from the Arthritis Foundation, the

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and the

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Selected works

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Winter, Ruth 1930 births Living people American cookbook writers American women journalists American science writers Pace University alumni Upsala College alumni Writers from Newark, New Jersey American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers