{"bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Ruth Ashby is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, including Anne Frank: Young Diarist and Rosa Parks: Courageous Citizen. A former book editor, she teaches English at the Portledge School in Locust Valley, New York.\r\nSource: http://us.macmillan.com/author/ruthashby\r\n\r\nRuth Ashby is a children's writer who focuses on nonfiction topics ranging from biology and paleontology to history and biography. She has also edited such volumes as Herstory: Women Who Changed the World and The Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Woman Homesteader. Herstory features short biographies of 120 of history's prominent women rulers, scientists, and athletes.\r\nSource: http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2247/Ashby-Ruth.html"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2015-06-27T17:07:35.108288"}, "latest_revision": 4, "name": "Ruth Ashby", "key": "/authors/OL542360A", "personal_name": "Ruth Ashby", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [7353815], "revision": 4}