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Ruth Brandon (born 1943) is a British journalist, historian and author. ==Biography== Brandon began her career as a trainee producer for the BBC, working in radio and television. She moved to work in freelance journalism and as an author.〔(Biography for Ruth Brandon )〕 She is the author of many works of both fiction and nonfiction.〔(An Interview with Ruth Brandon by Louis E. Bourgeois )〕 Her popular book ''The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' (1983) was republished by Prometheus Books. The book has been an influence on skeptics as it debunked spiritualism by documenting the absurdity and fraud in mediumship.〔Marlene Tromp. ''Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, And Self-transformation in Victorian Spiritualism'' . State University of New York Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0791467398〕 Martin Gardner wrote "Thousands of books about spiritualism have been written by believers, skeptics, and fence-sitters, but none demonstrates as convincingly as The Spiritualists the unbelievable ease with which persons of the highest intelligence can be flimflammed by the crudest of psychic frauds."〔Martin Gardner. (1988). ''The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher''. Prometheus Books. p. 175. ISBN 978-0879754327〕 In the early 1980s Brandon was involved in a dispute with the paranormal author Brian Inglis over the mediumship of Daniel Dunglas Home in the ''New Scientist'' magazine.〔Ruth Brandon. (''Scientists and the Supernormal'' ). New Scientist 16 Jun 1983〕〔Brian Inglis. ''Supernormal''. New Scientist. 30 Jun 1983〕〔Ruth Brandon. Prestidigitations. New Scientist. 14 Jul 1983〕 Brandon lives in London with her husband Philip Steadman, an art historian.〔(Ruth Brandon at Harper Collins Publishers )〕 Their daughter, Lily, was born 1982.〔(Ruth Brandon at Grove Atlantic )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth Brandon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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