Ruth Whitman

[3] Her eighth and last book is Hatshepshut, Speak to me (Wayne State University Press, 1992), and her most well-known and well-regarded is Tamsen Donner: A Woman’s Journey.

[4] She won a 1969 National Jewish Book Award in the English Poetry category for The Marriage Wig and Other Poems.

[7] She was an early cooperative member of Alice James Books,[8] and was the poetry editor for Radcliffe Quarterly from 1980 - 1995.

[9] The oldest daughter of Meyer David and Martha H. Bashein, né Sherman, Whitman was born on May 28, 1922, in New York City.

At the time of her death, she lived in Middletown, Rhode Island, and was married to Morton Sacks, a painter, and had three children, Rachel, Lee, and David.