Ruth Walgreen Stephan (1910–1974) was a writer and philanthropist who began visiting Tucson in the 1950s. She grew up in Chicago, the daughter of Charles Rudolph Walgreen (the founder of the national drug store chain Walgreens) and attended Northwestern University. Her first notable publication, a poem titled "Identity," appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1937. Her work soon began appearing in other leading magazines, such as "Poetry" and "Forum". In the 1940s and 1950s she wrote both poetry and novels ("The Flight" and "My Crown, My Love") and with her husband, the artist John Stephan, published an influential international quarterly of art and literature called "The Tiger's Eye". After spending a year in Peru, she compiled and translated the first English-language collection of Quechua songs and tales. She also produced a series of records, "The Spoken Anthology of American Literature", for international audiences. She lived in Japan for a while and made a documentary film on Zen Buddhism.