Ruth Bass

Ruth Mary Haskins Bass
Born July 18, 1934, Wesson Memorial Hospital, Springfield, Mass.
Parents: Ralph Warner Haskins and Hilda Marie Allen Haskins
Residence: Amherst, Mass.
Father: high school principal
Mother: homemaker (formerly high school home economics teacher and dietician)
Attended North Amherst School through third grade; moved to Brockton, Mass., 1942; Westfield, Mass., 1947; Greenfield, Mass., 1952.
Bachelor of arts degree, Bates College, 1955; master of science, Columia University School of Journalism, 1956; honorary doctor of humane letters, Westfield State College, 2009.

Employed as police and court reporter, The Berkshire Eagle, 1956-1961; editor of Berkshire Week magazine, 1963-68; as editor of the Berkshire Sampler, 1977-1987; as associate Sunday editor and Sunday editor, The Berkshire Eagles, 1987-1996; editor of The Paper, Hillsdale, N.Y., c. 1999-2004. Weekly columnist, Berkshire Sampler and Berkshire Eagle, 1983-. Free-lance travel writer. Ten published cookbooks, "Fresh from the Garden" series, Storey Publishing Co., 1996-1998; two novels, "Sarah's Daughter" (2007)and "Rose" (2010.