Editing Barbara Ehrenreich (section)

{{Short description|American writer and journalist (1941–2022)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name        = Barbara Ehrenreich
| image       = Barbara Ehrenreich 2 by David Shankbone.jpg
| caption     = Ehrenreich in 2006
| pseudonym   =
| birth_name  = Barbara Alexander
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1941|8|26|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Butte, Montana]], U.S.
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|2022|9|1|1941|8|26}}
| death_place = [[Alexandria, Virginia]], U.S.
| education   = {{Plainlist|
* [[Reed College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
* [[Rockefeller University]] ([[Doctorate of Philosophy|PhD]])
}}
| occupation  = {{Flatlist|
* Social critic
* journalist
* author
* activist
}}
| genre       = Nonfiction, investigative journalism
| movement    =
| notableworks=
| influences  =
| influenced  =
| children    = {{Plainlist|
* [[Rosa Brooks]]
* [[Ben Ehrenreich]]
}}
| spouse      = {{Plainlist|
* {{Marriage|[[John Ehrenreich]]|1966|1977|reason=div.}}
* {{Marriage|Gary Stevenson|1983|1993|reason=div.}}
}}
| website     = {{URL|barbaraehrenreich.com}}
}}

'''Barbara Ehrenreich''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɛər|ən|r|aɪ|k}}, {{respell|AIR|ən|rike}};<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict?in=barbara+ehrenreich|title=The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary|access-date=May 12, 2016}}</ref> {{née|'''Alexander'''}}; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and [[political activist]]. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the [[Democratic Socialists of America]]. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book ''[[Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America]]'', a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of [[minimum-wage]] jobs. She was a recipient of a [[Lannan Literary Award]] and the [[Erasmus Prize]].