17 Facts About Ruth Graham

Ruth McCue Bell Graham was a Chinese-born American Christian author.

Ruth Graham was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, Republic of China, the second of five children.

Ruth Graham completed her high school education at Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were there on furlough.

Ruth Graham became a minister's wife for a brief period in Western Springs, Illinois.

Ruth Graham lived out the rest of her life in Montreat, North Carolina.

Ruth Graham wrote a number of books, including some co-authored with her daughter Gigi Ruth Graham.

Ruth Graham McCue Bell was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, China.

Ruth Graham grew up in China in a deeply religious household.

Ruth Graham studied for three years at a high school in Pyongyang, now in North Korea, before graduating from a school in Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were on furlough.

Ruth Graham returned to the US at the age of 17 in the fall of 1937, and enrolled at Wheaton College, outside Chicago, Illinois, where she met Billy Ruth Graham.

In 1959, Ruth Graham published her first book, Our Christmas Story, an illustrated volume for children.

Ruth Graham went on to write or co-write 13 other books, many of them works of poetry she wrote as an emotional release while her husband was so often on the road through the years.

Ruth Graham was a vital part of Billy Ruth Graham's evangelistic career, and he turned to her for advice and input about many ministry decisions.

Ruth Graham encouraged her husband to visit and later accompanied him during his historic visits to the People's Republic of China.

Ruth Graham had been in frail health since suffering spinal meningitis in 1995.

Ruth Graham was a poet and writer, authoring or co-authoring 14 books, as well as a regular contributor for newspapers and magazines.

Ruth Graham's biography, A Time for Remembering, was an early work of novelist Patricia Cornwell.