Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids?: Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted: Second Edition
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Ruth Duskin Feldman
Ruth Duskin Feldman began her career in the 1940s as a radio-television Quiz Kid. Today she is an award-winning freelance writer and editor. The first of her eight published books, Chemi, the Magician (Dodd Mead, 1947), came out when she was 13. Her second book, Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids? Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted (Chicago Review Press, 1982; iUniverse, 2000), received major nationwide media coverage. She has coauthored four college textbooks, including leading texts on human and child development, has lectured widely on the rearing of gifted children, and has contributed to many national and local publications. She edits the journal Humanistic Judaism.
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