Ruth Stafford Peale
Ruth Stafford Peale ( born September 10, 1906 in Fonda, Iowa as Loretta Ruth Stafford, † February 6, 2008 in Pawling, New York) was an American writer, editor and functionary of many organizations.
Biography
In 1913 she moved with her parents' household to Detroit. There she graduated from high school. Subsequently, she completed a degree at Syracuse University.
In 1930 she married Norman Vincent Peale. Two years later she moved to New York City, where he was pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church. In 1945 the couple Peale the Foundation for Christian Living, the chairman and managing director Ruth Stafford Peale was well into old age. While her husband made the more substantive work in speech and writing, she took care of the majority of the organization of the joint venture, initially in a small group of their church, and later on a larger scale.
From 1952 to 1954 she was Vice President of the National Council of Churches of the United States. She was the first woman chairman of the National Board of North American Missions of the Reformed Church in America and a number of other church and university committees.
Has played an essential role in ensuring that the authored by her husband later bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking could appear. After the book by several publishers had rejected her husband had lost his courage. She took it, present the book more publishers, and finally reached that it appeared - to 2008 in 42 languages and 20 million copies.
From 1952 to 1968, the spouses Peale on American television moderated together weekly Guide consignment What's Your Trouble? Each week they received about 5,000 letters from fans seeking advice. Ruth Stafford Peale wrote regular articles for the magazines, Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post and Woman's Day. With her husband she published from 1947 to jointly founded Guideposts magazine, which has a circulation of 2,500,000 copies auswies at the time of her death and is among the 25 most widely circulated magazines in the United States.
In the biographical feature film One Man's Way ( 1964) on the life of Norman Vincent Peale ( Actors: Don Murray ) Ruth Stafford Peale by actress Diana Hyland was embodied.
From their marriage two daughters and one son. She was grandmother of eight grandchildren and got in his lifetime 14 great-grandchildren.
Works
- The Adventure of Being a Wife. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1971. ISBN 0-13-013946-7
- Secrets of Staying in Love. Nelson, Nashville 1984. ISBN 0-8-4075910- X
- Discovering the Power of Positive Thinking (together with Norman Vincent Peale ). Peale Center for Christian Living, Pawling 2000. (No ISBN )
- A Lifetime of Positive Thinking (together with Jo Kadleček ). Guideposts, Carmel, 2001. (No ISBN )
- Guideposts, ed. by Norman Vincent Peale and Ruth Stafford Peale. Guidepost Associates, Pawling 1947ff. ISSN 0017-5331