Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

[4] Young-Bruehl's family on her mother's side ran a dairy farm on land near the head of Chesapeake Bay, and were active in local Maryland politics.

Her mother's father and grandfather (a newspaper editor) had been amateur scholars with a large private library.

Just as the political theorist Hannah Arendt was joining the Graduate Faculty of the New School, Young-Bruehl enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy.

After earning her Ph.D. in 1974, Young-Bruehl took a faculty appointment the following year teaching philosophy in the College of Letters, Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

[5] Throughout this time, she continued to publish books, including collections of her essays and the award-winning The Anatomy of Prejudices.