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Barbara Ehrenreich
AuthorBooks · Second hand1941-2022
Barbara Ehrenreich 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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About Barbara Ehrenreich
Birth
1941
Death
2022
Barbara Ehrenreich 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.
Barbara Ehrenreich described herself as a myth buster by trade.
Her most acclaimed work, Nickel and Dimed, is a fundamental reference on social conditions in the United States.
She was a prominent political activist and a leading figure in the Democratic Socialists of America.
The New Yorker described her as a veteran muckraker committed to social advocacy.
Her prolific career spanned over 50 works, exploring themes such as feminism, history, and inequality.
