Icon of the Week: Ruth Ann Steinhagen
It’s been a while since I’ve done an icon post, but I’ve fully ceased to be interesting to myself, so I’m forced to turn to outside sources. Fortunately for me, I stumbled upon the obituary for Ruth Ann Steinhagen in The New York Times last week, who I immediately knew would make the perfect subject to be memorialized in one of my idiotic posts.
Ruth Ann Steinhagen was both the most famous Ruth Ann ever to live in the 20th century, as well as the most famous stalker ever to become the subject of a Robert Redford movie. Born in 1929 in a small town in Illinois to German immigrants from Berlin, it was pretty clear from a very young age that Ruth Ann Steinhagen was not your average girl.
