Ruth Margaret Williams (born 1945) is a British Mathematician at the University of Cambridge. [3], In 1947, Blue Sox manager Chet Grant gave Williams a chance to join the pitching rotation, which included the experimented Jean Faut, Phyllis Koehn and Ruby Stephens. Jeff Durstewitz, a tough experienced teenage New Yorker and his friends write a letter to Ruth Tuttle, the editor of a school newspaper in Yazoo, Mississippi. I spent so many years making a living by other means that I know the price you pay for NOT doing what you love. Ruth's Obituary. https://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-writers/ruth-williams First post: Sep 10, 2020 Latest post: 8 hours ago . In addition, Williams was recently named as the Mississippi Library Association’s Nonfiction Writer of the Year Award for 2003. [8], Article in the New Scientist: Building blocks for space and time. During her career she hurled eight eight two-hitters, one of them a no-hitter going into the ninth inning of a contest. It just always seemed a satisfying and direct way to express myself. She is now a Life Fellow at Girton College. [1], Ruth Williams debuted in the AAGPBL as a 20-year rookie and had a solid if unspectacular career that spanned eight seasons. It all begins with a headache that continues for 2 weeks and won't subside in April 2018. Flat and curved space-times, (1988) Williams, Ruth; Chapter on Bertha Jeffreys in Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth Century Women to Physics. Williams was the speaker at Tifton, Georgia’s “Reading Capital of the World” in October of the same year. Ruth had been missing a few doses of Blood pressure medications and we, ( Carol, Rhonda, Chris, and Marie) were worried about a … What is it about? 14 December 2003. Mississippi Writers Project When will it be published? It’s a great coming of age type of book which I would recommend to anybody but especially to young people my age and people who want to understand and learn about the 60’s in Mississippi. Writer Ruth Williams was born in Houston, Texas, on November 17, 1951. She held a research position at Imperial College (1970-1973) and a temporary lectureship at the University of Bristol (1973-1974), before moving back to a Hertha Ayrton Research Fellowship at Girton College in 1974.[2]. She has been Treasurer of the Cambridgeshire branch of the Royal Institution Mathematics Workshops, which runs Saturday morning sessions to foster the mathematical interest of local twelve- and thirteen-year olds. E-mail interview. Williams was born in Birmingham and attended primary schools in Lozells and Banners Gate, her secondary education was at Sutton Coldfield High School for Girls. How difficult was it for you to get your first book published? Fresh, moving, funny, and incisive, it encompasses many very American things: the differences and mutualities in the North and South, ambitions, defeats, and loves, and the passing of time itself across a broad national landscape.”, The book received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Nonfiction Award for 2000 and the Mississippi Library Association’s Nonfiction Award for 2003. The problem with her family is that her father is the head of the KKK in Birdsong County and her best friend is an old black woman, who is also known as a Voodoo witch, and whose family was massacred by the white girl’s father and grandfather in 1929. [1], Following her baseball career, Williams married Leonard Heverly and continued her work in Ambler. Williams’ early research was in elementary particle physics, then during her second postdoctoral position she started working in classical general relativity. Read, read, read. She was traded to the South Bend Blue Sox a year later. [3], Williams later attended the AAGPBL Players Association reunions. Very difficult. Plus, our relationship was largely one of writing to each other and for each other, so it seemed a natural thing to finally write a book about our shared experiences. Since she was still teaching in Pennsylvania, the Blue Sox flew Williams in for the Memorial Day weekend in order to pitch. [1][3], Williams started 1950 with South Bend, but was traded to the Peoria Redwings during the midseason and ended the year with the Kalamazoo Lassies. Listed at 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m), 139 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. Ruth Williams, photo courtesy of the author. Anything you do with passion, for a number of years, will become a triumph. Ruth Henrietta (Werchan) Williams, 98, of Houston, TX, passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 15, 2020, in Houston, TX. There is no way to avoid it. She combined for a 5–10 record with a 3.47 ERA in just 19 games. I enjoyed this book very much because I felt like I could relate to it since I am also a  teenager living in Mississippi. Ruth Williams [Heverly] (February 12, 1926 – February 10, 2005) was a pitcher who played from 1946 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. [13], "Paul Taunton Matthews Biographical Memoir", "Dynamics of the Friedmann Universe Using Regge Calculus", "Simplicial quantum gravity with higher derivative terms: Formalism and numerical results in four dimensions", "Cambridge Branch of the Ri Mathematics Masterclasses", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Margaret_Williams&oldid=984422100, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. How has Mississippi or living in Mississippi influenced your writing? She died at her home in Ambler, Pennsylvania, just two days short of her 79th birthday. Her research focuses on discrete gravity. Jeff and I spent three years writing the book, then another year trying to get an agent. The letter, which mocks Mississippi and Southerners in general, both interests and angers the innocent Ruth and provokes her to write back. Why did you decide to write about your experience with Jeff as the subject of your book Younger Than That Now? [3], Williams opened 1946 with the Racine Belles, but ten days later was transferred to the Fort Wayne Daisies. And once you know your passion, never give up. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. (1968-1970). It is at the root of everything, inescapable, alluring and devastating. If you weren’t a writer, what would you do instead? In 1972, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her particular approach, called Regge calculus, is a version of discrete gravity where curved space-times are approximated by collections of flat simplices. She was relegated to a bench role for most of the year, pitching in just one game while striking out a batter in one inning. Ruth Williams now lives in Flora, Mississippi, with her husband and her animals. The first member of her family to go to university, she read mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge, then moved to Imperial College, London, for her PhD, which was in theoretical physics and focused on current algebras.