Barbara Ehrenreich
American writer and journalist (1941–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Barbara Ehrenreich (/ˈɛərənraɪk/, AIR-ən-rike;[1] née Alexander; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize.
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Born | Barbara Alexander (1941-08-26)August 26, 1941 Butte, Montana, U.S. |
Died | September 1, 2022(2022-09-01) (aged 81) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. |
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Genre | Nonfiction, investigative journalism |
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