NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg will write about her long friendship with late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a new memoir, Axios reports.
Simon & Schuster will publish Totenberg’s Dinners With Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships this summer. The press describes the book as “an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years” with Ginsburg.
In 2020, Totenberg recounted the beginning of her friendship with the justice, which started when the reporter read a legal brief and, not understanding all of it, decided to call its author.
“By the time I hung up an hour later, I was so full of information that I was like a goose whose innards were ready for foie gras,” Totenberg recalled. “I soon began calling Professor Ginsburg regularly, and eventually I met her in person at a conference in New York.”
The two remained close over the years. In 2000, Ginsburg officiated Totenberg’s wedding to surgeon H. David Reines.
“Dinners With Ruth is an extraordinary account of two women who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers,” Simon & Schuster says. “It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships as women began to pry open career doors and transform the workplace.”
Dinners With Ruth is slated for publication on Sept. 13.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
