Webb, Marilyn, 1942-

Writer, journalism professor, and feminist Marilyn Salzman Webb was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up on Long Island. She was active in Students for a Democratic Society and the women's movement in Chicago and Washington, D.C. She founded Off Our Backs and the women's studies department at Goddard College, the first women's studies program in the country. She lives half the year in New York where she is a writer and journalist and an advocate for better care for the dying and the other half in Illinois where she is co-chair of the journalism program at Knox College. She is the author of The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life.