Ronald Sanders (writer)

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Ronald Sanders (July 7, 1932 – January 11, 1991) was an American journalist and writer. He was born in Union City, New Jersey, to English-born musician George Harold Sanders and Rose Rachlin, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. He had a sister named Marilyn. Although his family did not practice religious traditions, he listed Judaism on a U.S. Army form.

In 1960, Sanders won a Fulbright Fellowship to study French socialists and moved to Paris. He used the opportunity to travel to the Soviet Union and to Israel. From 1966 to 1975, he worked for Midstream Magazine, serving as editor-in-chief from 1973 to 1975. He married Beverly Gingold on March 19, 1967; they had no children. He was the first recipient of the B'nai B'rith Book Award for The Downtown Jews. Sanders died of liver cancer at age 58.