Boys Themselves: A Return to Single-Sex Education

michael ruhlman

A portrait of University School in Cleveland, Ohio, an all-boys' day school, follows a year in the lives of the male students, teachers, and headmaster, and explores the benefits of single-sex education

Genres educationnonfiction

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1996

This edition

Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Published: September 15, 1997 by Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780805055955
ASIN: 0805055959
Language: English

About the author

michael ruhlman

Michael Ruhlman (born 1963 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American writer. He is the author of 11 books, and is best known for his work about and in collaboration with American chefs, as well as other works of non-fiction.

Ruhlman grew up in Cleveland and was educated at University School (a private boys' day school in Cleveland) and at Duke University, graduating from the latter in 1985. He worked a series of odd jobs (including briefly at the New York Times) and traveled before returning to his hometown in 1991 to work for a local magazine.

While working at the magazine, Ruhlman wrote an article about his old high school and its new headmaster, which he expanded into his first book, Boys Themselves: A Return to Single-Sex Education (1996).

For his second book, The Making of a Chef (1997), Ruhlman enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America, completing the course, to produce a first-person account -- of the techniques, personalities, and mindsets -- of culinary education at the prestigious chef's school. The success of this book produced two follow-ups, The Soul of a Chef (2000) and The Reach of a Chef (2006).