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Terry "Tuff" Ryan (July 14, 1946 – May 16, 2007) was an American writer, originally from Defiance, Ohio, who resided in San Francisco for most of her adult life. She was best known for her memoir The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, published in 2001, and subsequent film adaptation released in 2005.
Terry Ryan (November 26, 1922 – May 5, 2001) was an American screenwriter. Awards and honors. Ryan won Emmy Awards for his work on The Phil Silvers Show in 1955 and 1957. References
May 21, 2007 · Terry Ryan, 60, author of the bestselling 2001 memoir “The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less,” died of brain cancer Wednesday at her home in San...
May 23, 2007 · Lesbian author Terry "Tuff" Ryan died of cancer at her home in San Francisco last Wednesday, May 16. She was 60. Ms. Ryan was a technical writer, book reviewer, poet, and editor, but is best known for her 2001 memoir, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less .
May 18, 2007 · May 18, 2007. DEFIANCE, Ohio, May 17 (AP) — Terry Ryan, who wrote the book “The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less,” about how her mother kept her...
Jan 29, 2006 · Terry Ryan's memoir about her mother was made into a movie that got lost in the Hollywood shuffle. A small theater in Missouri has rescued the film from oblivion.
May 18, 2007 · San Francisco author Terry Ryan, who died Wednesday at 61, wrote her life story late in life in the form of a memoir of her remarkable mother. When that book, "The Prize Winner of Defiance,...
