Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022)

Barbara Ehrenreich, an author and essayist who picked apart the myths of the American Dream with books that included a firsthand struggle to live on minimum wage in Nickel and Dimed and a rebuke of by-the-bootstraps optimism in “Bright-Sided,” died Sept. 1 at a hospice center in Alexandria, Va. She was 81.

Nickel and Dimed was the 2004 Reading Together title.