Editing Ruth First (section)

==Memoirs==
First's book, ''117 Days'', is her account of her arrest, imprisonment and interrogation by the [[South African Police]] [[Security Branch (South Africa)|Special Branch]] in 1963. It was first published in 1965. The memoir provides a detailed account of how she endured "isolation and sensory deprivation" while withstanding "pressure to provide information about her comrades to the Special Branch".<ref name="First 1965 vii"/>
 
Her daughter, the writer [[Gillian Slovo]], published her own memoir, ''Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country'', in 1997. It is an account of her childhood in South Africa and her relationship with her activist parents.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/25/reviews/970525.25geigert.html|title=Books {{!}} The Cause Came First|first= H. Jack|last=Geiger|website=The New York Times|date=25 May 1997|access-date=22 January 2025}}</ref>