Barbara Ehrenreich is a political essayist and social critic; one of the most recognized and prolific commentators of the prominent and often difficult social issues of the world today. Considered a 'radical socialist', who tackles a diverse range of issues in both books and magazine articles, Ehrenreich is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, Harpers, and the Progressive, she is a contributing writer to Time magazine.
She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Ford Foundation Award for Humanistic Perspectives on Contemporary Society in 1982, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987-88, and a grant for Research and Writing from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1995. She shared the National Magazine Award for Excellence in Reporting in 1980 and has received honorary degrees from Reed College, the State University of New York at Old Westbury, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She has a Ph.D. in biology from the Rockefeller University and a B.A. from Reed College. She has taught at the Graduate School of Journalism at U. C. Berkeley and at Brandeis University.
