Marilyn Webb

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.