| Garance Franke-Ruta | |
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| Education | magna cum laude, Harvard University (1997) |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Notable credit(s) | national web politics editor/producer for The Washington Post; previously a senior editor at The American Prospect and senior writer at the Washington City Paper; work has appeared in The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Salon, Legal Affairs, Utne Reader and National Journal; frequent guest on BloggingHeads.tv |
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Garance Franke-Ruta (born 1972 in Cavaillon, Vaucluse, France) is the politics editor of The Atlantic Online. Previously she was a national web politics editor for the Washington Post and a blogger for its WhoRunsGov site,[1] a senior editor at the American Prospect and a senior writer at the Washington City Paper, D.C.'s alternative weekly newspaper. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Salon, Legal Affairs, Utne Reader and National Journal, and is also a frequent diavlog participant with other political and current event journalists on BloggingHeads.tv.[2] After attending Hunter College, she transferred to Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1997.[3]
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Franke-Ruta was born in Cavaillon while her parents were staying in Lacoste, Vaucluse,[4] and grew up in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York City.[5] She attended school in Greenwich Village and then attended Santa Fe High School and a private high school in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The name "Garance" is a French word referring to a shade of red and is the name of the main character in Les Enfants du Paradis.[4] Franke-Ruta is the granddaughter of Nelson Frank, niece of Johanna Hurwitz, and cousin of Ted Frank.