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Ellen Jane Willis (December 14, 1941 – November 9, 2006) was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, The Essential Ellen Willis, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism .
Nov 10, 2006 · Ellen Willis, the noted journalist, feminist and cultural critic, whose work ranged seamlessly through politics and religion, sex, film and rock ’n’ roll, died yesterday at her home in...
Dec 14, 2016 · Willis was The New Yorker’s first pop music critic, but to her, everything was open for criticism. Ellen Willis saw it all, and wrote about it too. Willis, born on this day in 1941, was,...
Nov 11, 2006 · Friends and colleagues remember Ellen Willis, political essayist, journalist, rock critic and valued contributor to The Nation, who died November 9.
Sep 8, 2015 · Ellen Willis, the very model of a modern secular intellectual, believed in miracles. It must have become apparent soon after Ellen Jane’s birth that Mel and Miriam Willis had a genius in the cradle.
Jul 25, 2014 · “The Essential Ellen Willis,” which gathers 40 years of her work, carries the sound of a feminist who never forgot the ideals of the ’60s, and who never stopped arguing for what those years gave...
Nov 10, 2006 · Ellen Willis — the New Yorker 's first rock critic, golden-era Village Voice r, radical feminist, and founder of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at NYU — died of lung cancer in ...
Nov 13, 2006 · Through brilliant, often polemical, writings, the feminist and educator Ellen Willis, who has died of lung cancer aged 64, was central to the cultural debates and political controversies of the...
May 22, 2014 · The Essential Ellen Willis focuses on the writer's explicitly feminist culture criticism. It was edited by Willis' daughter, who published an earlier collection of her mother's essays in 2011...
Oct 10, 2006 · Ellen Willis, the noted journalist, feminist and cultural critic, whose work ranged seamlessly through politics and religion, sex, film and rock 'n' roll, died Thursday at her home in...
