Ruth Whipple Crocker (born December 10, 1946) is an American writer and author of the memoir Those Who Remain: Remembrance and Reunion After War, which began as a Pushcart Prize-nominated essay in O-Dark-Thirty.[2][3]

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Biography

Crocker was born in 1946 in Mystic, Connecticut. After attending Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut, she met and married West Point officer David R. Crocker, Jr.[4] When her husband died during the Vietnam War, Crocker went back to school and received a B.S. from the University of Connecticut; an MA in education from Tufts University; and a PhD in nutrition and human development from the University of Connecticut.[5] She received her MFA in creative writing from Bennington College in 2011.[6] Her nonfiction essay "Sam's Way" in The Gettysburg Review was listed as a notable essay of 2012 in Best American Essays 2013.[7]

Crocker is on the National Board of the Gold Star Wives of America.[8] She resides in Mystic, Connecticut, and has one son, Noah Bean.[9]

Bibliography

Books

Those Who Remain: Remembrance and Reunion After War (2014) People of Yellowstone (2017)

Essays

• "Reunion and Remembrance," T.A.P.S. Magazine (2013)
• "What the Dog Understood," O-Dark-Thirty Magazine (2013)
• "Sam’s Way," The Gettysburg Review (2012)
• "Try to Remember," Bennington Review (2011)

References

External links

• Ruth Crocker was a guest alongside authors Lev Grossman and Brian Slattery on WNPR’s "Why We’ll Always Need New Books.”
• Ruth Crocker’s event at the ongoing Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA
• An interview with Ruth Crocker on WTNH-TV's "CT Style."