American journalist and author whose 2008 book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why, explains how the brain works in disasters—and how we can do better. The Unthinkable was made into a PBS documentary called Surviving Disaster. In August 2013, she released a book about education systems around the world called The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, published by Simon & Schuster. Ripley grew up in New Jersey. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1996 with a B.A. in government. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband. Her brother is the screenwriter Ben Ripley. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
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