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She received a B.A. from New York University in three years, a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin a year later, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne (magna cum laude) one year after that, becoming at age twenty the youngest Ph.D. in the world (it made headlines in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e; the subject of her thesis- the then little-known Virginia Woolf).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At twenty-four, Gruber became an international correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e and traveled across the Soviet Arctic, scooping the world and witnessing, firsthand, the building of cities in the Siberian gulag by the pioneers and prisoners Stalin didn't execute . . . At thirty, she traveled to Alaska for Harold L. Ickes, FDR's secretary of the interior, to look into homesteading for G.I.s after World War II . . . 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