Ruth Pickering Pinchot

Ruth Pickering Pinchot (born Ruth Pickering; June 20, 1893 – December 24, 1984) was an American writer, critic, and activist. She was born to a family of Quakers who ran a small company, Peerless Dyes. Ruth graduated from Vassar College in 1914. Upon graduation, she moved to Greenwich Village, New York, where she lived in a communal house with Crystal Eastman, and several other writers, artists, and thinkers.

Career and activism Ruth contributed to primarily left leaning publications such as The Masses, The Nation and The New Republic. As a writer for The Nation, Ruth authored an essay reflecting on the development of her own views of feminism as part of a series called "These Modern Women," which published over 1926 and 1927. She was an advocate of birth control and a suffragette. Early in her career, Ruth frequently wrote about the labor movement. By the late 1920s, Ruth became an art and dance critic, leaving behind many of the topics covered earlier in her career.

Although Ruth was known as a left-leaning writer early in her career, her politics began to shift to the right in 1930s. Her objections to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs solidified her rightward shift. Pinchot and her husband began to embrace the isolationist group America First.

Personal life In August 1919, Ruth married Amos Pinchot.