Ruth Duskin Feldman

Ruth Duskin Feldman started her career at age 7 as a radio/television Quiz Kid and eventually became a writer, editor, photographer, and lecturer, specializing in education and child raising. She published her first book, Chemi the Magician (Dodd Mead, 1947), when she was 13. Her second book, Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids? - Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted (Chicago Review Press), came out in 1982 and was republished by iUniverse as a Backinprint Authors Guild edition in 2000. She coauthored four leading college textbooks published by McGraw-Hill: Human Development, A Child's World, Child Development: A Topical Approach, and Adult Development and Aging.

During the 1970s Ruth was an award-winning writer for Lerner Newspapers, a community newspaper chain in Chicago. She has contributed to many newspapers and national magazines. She won the 1983 Benjamin Fine award of the National Association of Secondary School Principals and was a runner-up in the Lowell Thomas 1986 travel journalism awards and a finalist in the American Society of Journalists and Authors 1992 magazine article awards. She was keynote speaker at the 1994 Writers and Editors/One on One conference sponsored by the University of Chicago.

Ruth has done scripts and photography for filmstrips and video programs; edits a journal, Humanistic Judaism; and has published photographs in books and magazines. A nationally recognized authority on gifted children, she has lectured at universities, parents' groups, and school districts throughout the country. She is a member of PEN USA, American Society of Journalists and Authors, and Authors Guild and is listed in Who's Who in America. She lives in Highland Park, Illinois, with her husband, Gilbert Feldman, an attorney. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.