Marilyn Webb

Marilyn Webb, also known as Marilyn Salzman Webb (born 1942), is an American activist, author, journalist, and professor.

Biography

From Amazon.com author page link

Marilyn Webb (1942-Present) was born in Brooklyn to second generation Russian-Jewish immigrants who were active in the trade union movement and the establishment of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
She was a founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), of the early wave of the 1960s-1970s women's movement, of one of the first college-based women's studies program (at Goddard College) and of one of the first feminist newspapers (off our backs). She is long-time journalist, editor, educator, and Buddhist practitioner, and has been written about and cited in many books and periodicals related to the women's movement, SDS, death and dying, and reproductive and end-of-life choices.
Webb teaches at Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, where she is Distinguished Professor of Journalism, and founder and chair of the Program in Journalism.
She is a past editor of "Psychology Today" and other national magazines. Her work and her books and articles are seminal in investigations of creative mind, public policy related to women, pain management and end of life choices, and self-determination in health and medical care.
"The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life" was nominated for a Pulitzer-Prize and has won awards and kudos from such organizations as Compassion and Choices and the Hospice Foundation, and has received a host of rave literary and newspaper reviews.
She lives with her husband, John Sheedy, and splits her time between Galesburg and New York.

From “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” [movie] link

”An early organizer, Webb was also notoriously booed off stage by New Left men at a Counter-Inaugural Demonstration against then-President Richard Nixon, becoming a major voice in the emerging independent women's movement. ...”

From COPING; A Baby's Quilt to Sew Up the Generations New York Times, JULY 9, 2000 link

...inspired by her cousin Barbara Bobrow’s healing quilt .... Ms. Webb said ... “When I learned my daughter was pregnant, I thought: 'This child is very lucky. It has a huge network. Why not use a woman's art form [quilting] to teach him about his family tree?'

Citations

• Wikipedia link retrieved Nov 2018
• Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 edited by Barbara J. Love link one child, three step children
• Faculty Biography link
• ”John J. Sheedy, Jr. & Marilyn Salzman Webb” New York Times, March 21, 1993 link
• Esther Wein Salzman Halpert Obituary Published in The New York Times on May 25, 2008 link
• “The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life.” Marilyn Webb. Random House Publishing Group, July 27, 2011. “Acknowledgements.” link “The depth of emotion begins with relatives who have now died: Netta Salzman, William Salzman, Jacob and Anna Salzman, Frank and Anna Wein, Macy Halpert, and Jack Sheedy.”