Background
Katherine Russell Rich was born on November 17, 1955, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Stuart Paddock and Lucy (Harrison) Rich.
Katherine Russell Rich
Syracuse, NY 13244, United States
Katherine received a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University in 1977.
Syracuse, NY 13244, United States
Katherine received a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University in 1977.
Katherine Russell Rich
Katherine Russell Rich
Katherine Russell Rich
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FELUNEW/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(An eye-opening and courageous memoir that explores what l...)
An eye-opening and courageous memoir that explores what learning a new language can teach us about distant worlds and, ultimately, ourselves.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003K15ILC/?tag=2022091-20
2010
Katherine Russell Rich was born on November 17, 1955, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Stuart Paddock and Lucy (Harrison) Rich.
Katherine received a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University in 1977.
At the age of thirty-two, magazine editor Katherine Russell Rich discovered a lump in her breast which presaged a long battle with spreading cancer. She chronicles this battle in her book The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer and Back, published in 1999.
Rich recounts how, after the breakup of her marriage, she found the lump, which was first discounted by her doctor. While an editor at GQ magazine, she saw another physician and finally demanded a biopsy, which revealed cancer. After a lumpectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation, she continued to work but saw her assignments reduced and eventually lost her job. Rich also endured the breakup of a meaningful romantic relationship around this time.
After a year without work, she became an editor at Allure magazine. Soon after beginning this job, however, she found that her cancer had spread to her spine. The book graphically chronicles the pain, brittle bones, baldness, and paralysis, which resulted from her new treatments. Helped by colleagues, friends, and her ex-husband Diego Olive, she was determined not to succumb to depression but faced her problems with sardonic humor.
Katherine’s book Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language, details a year she spent in India on assignment for The New York Times. Having been sent there to interview the Dalai Lama's doctor, her assignment turned into a journey of linguistic awakening and of self-discovery.
Katherine Russell Rich is known as the author of The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer, and Back and Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language. The latter was nominated for the 2011 Dolman Travel Book Award. She wrote for the New York Times, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Slate, and O, the Oprah Magazine, among other publications.
Katherine received several grants and fellowships, including ones from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
(An eye-opening and courageous memoir that explores what l...)
2010Rich explored the interesting notion that many women seem to succumb to cancer after the breakup of a relationship.
Quotations: “Loneliness is intrinsic to cancer... because loneliness is one of its killing tools.”
On January 15, 1983, Katherine married Diego Olive, but they divorced in January 1989.
