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Barbara Ehrenreich ’63
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September 1, 2022, in Alexandria, Virginia, from a stroke.
As a general rule of life, Barbara felt, if a door opens, one should walk on through and at least take a look around.
Barbara biography ehrenreich
She approached life as a scientist, became a brilliant wordsmith, and enjoyed a successful career as a writer, focusing on ordinary people. Championing the overlooked and the forgotten, she tackled the myth of the American dream, the labor market, health care, poverty, and women’s rights.
She was born in the copper-rich town of Butte, Montana, where her father, Benjamin Alexander, worked as a miner.
After earning a PhD in metallurgy at Carnegie Mellon University, he became a mining industry executive and moved his family, first to the East Coast, and then to Southern California. Barbara’s mother, Isabelle Oxley, was a discontented housewife.
Both parents were heavy drinkers.
“My mother’s anger was the central forc