Ruth Brandon

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Born in London in 1943, Ruth Brandon attended Girton College, Cambridge, before joining the BBC where she helped produce radio and television programs for some years. She then became a freelance journalist writing, among other publications, for the Times, the Evening Standard, the Radio Times, New Society, the New Statesman, the New Scientist and Nova, as well as some small books for schools.

Brandon decided she wanted to work on a larger project and the result was her 1976 book Singer and the Sewing Machine: A Capitalist Romance. She then continued to write books, centered on her interest in feminism (especially The New Woman and the Old Men), deception and self-deception (especially The Spiritualists and The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini), and the secrets of charisma.


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