Sarah Ruden is a leading translator of the ancient literature of the West. She received her PhD in classical philology from Harvard University and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, among other honors. She lives in Connecticut.

"Sarah Ruden is a translator, literary critic, cultural historian, classical philologist and Quaker. She also happens to be a blistering polemicist on the issue of reproductive rights, a talent she may never have realized if it weren’t for the steamrolling of those rights in our current political moment . . . Her book reflects a newfound determination on the part of some writers and thinkers to make an energetic case for rights that were long assumed settled but can no longer be taken for granted."

Sarah Ruden is a leading translator of the ancient literature of the West. She received her PhD in classical philology from Harvard University and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, among other honors. She lives in Connecticut.

"Sarah Ruden is a translator, literary critic, cultural historian, classical philologist and Quaker. She also happens to be a blistering polemicist on the issue of reproductive rights, a talent she may never have realized if it weren’t for the steamrolling of those rights in our current political moment . . . Her book reflects a newfound determination on the part of some writers and thinkers to make an energetic case for rights that were long assumed settled but can no longer be taken for granted."

Sarah Ruden is a leading translator of the ancient literature of the West. She received her PhD in classical philology from Harvard University and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, among other honors. She lives in Connecticut.

"Sarah Ruden is a translator, literary critic, cultural historian, classical philologist and Quaker. She also happens to be a blistering polemicist on the issue of reproductive rights, a talent she may never have realized if it weren’t for the steamrolling of those rights in our current political moment . . . Her book reflects a newfound determination on the part of some writers and thinkers to make an energetic case for rights that were long assumed settled but can no longer be taken for granted."