Ruth Pennebaker

has written three highly acclaimed young-adult novels, Don’t Think Twice, Conditions of Love, and Both Sides Now, as well as essays and articles for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, Parents, Redbook, McCall’s, Cooking Light and other nationwide publications. She is a commentator for KUT, Austin’s public radio station, and the author of A Texas Family Time Capsule, a collection of her favorite columns.

Ms. Pennebaker lives in Austin, with her mad-scientist husband, the scattered memorabilia of their adult daughter and son, and a neutered cat named Lefty. Her hobbies are reading, yoga, social criticism, and free-form worrying. A card-carrying member of the Chickasaw Nation, Ms. Pennebaker was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, close to a refinery. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Eckerd College and, for reasons that now elude her, a J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law.

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Ruth Pennebaker and her sister, Ellen Dlott, also known as the Fabulous Geezersisters, blog at www.geezersisters.wordpress.com.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Ruth Pennebaker has been a speaker or panelist at the following gatherings:

Texas Book Festival, Austin, 1998, 1999, 2000

Texas Library Association, Houston, 2000

University of Texas at Arlington Women's Studies Friend's Luncheon, 2003 speaker: "If the Feminist Revolution is Over, Does That Mean Our Side Won?"

Writer's League of Texas, Austin, 2000

Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association, New Orleans, 2000

West Texas Book & Author Festival, Abilene, Texas, 2002