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Ellen Willis, 1941-2006

My friend, colleague, and neighbor Ellen Willis died this morning. She was an amazing person. We will miss her.

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Here is her obit from The Village Voice:

Groundbreaking feminist author, activist, and academic Ellen Willis died Wednesday. Willis had been sick from some time. Born in 1941, she served as the first pop music critic at the New Yorker, and later worked as an editor and writer at the Village Voice, on and off, until the mid 1990s. ...

Here is her recent essay on the history of women at The Village Voice.

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