Ruth Sidransky

Ruth Sidransky was born in the Bronx to two profoundly deaf parents. Her first language was ASL or "Sign", and she translated the world's sounds for her parents throughout their lives.

In 1990, Sidransky wrote "In Silence", a memoir of her life among the world of the Deaf. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the New York Times called it "...a great act of love." Sidransky has appeared on Good Morning, America, NPR and throughout the United States and Canada, speaking on behalf of American Sign and its legitimacy as a distinct and singular language.

Currently in her 9th decade, Ruth Sidransky published three books in 2015: A Woman's Primer, a look at the qualities women need to survive and thrive; Bravo Carrie, her memoir of her adult daughter's struggle with cancer, and Reparations, a novel about young American Jews in Europe at the end of World War II.

Sidransky divides her time between Lenox, Massachusetts and southern Florida.

My Website can be found at http://www.ruthsidransky.com