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. Source: http://us.macmillan.com/author/ruthashby Ruth 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. Source: http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2247/Ashby-Ruth.html