Ruth Coughlin

Ruth Coughlin was born on December 3, 1943. She was an editor at Harper and Delacorte Press. She married William J. Coughlin, a federal administrative law judge and novelist, whom she edited while working at Delacorte Press. She moved to Detroit where she eventually became the book editor at The vis mere Detroit News. In June 1991, her husband was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and died nine months later. She wrote Grieving: A Love Story, a memoir about love, loss and the pain of widowhood. It was published in 1993. She died on December 25, 2014 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre