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Ruth Bell Graham

American author (1920-2007) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 87

Ruth McCue Bell Graham was an American Christian author. She was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, China, the second of five children. Her parents, Virginia Leftwich Bell and L. Nelson Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles (480 km) north of Shanghai.

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At age 13 she was enrolled in Pyeng Yang Foreign School in Pyongyang, Korea, where she studied for three years. She completed her high school education at Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were there on furlough. She graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.

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United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1920 to 2007 · aged 87