Roslyn Zinn passed away almost a week ago.  If I hadn't noticed the article on the Commondreams.org website I wouldn't have known at all.

From the Boston Globe obit:

She was a passionate person, passionately committed to the causes of peace and justice, and she was anguished by what was happening in the world,” her husband said. “At the same time, she was a very sunny, happy, warm person.”

“The woman exuded love and openness,” said James Carroll, an author and columnist for the Globe’s opinion pages and a friend of the Zinns. “I felt it, but everyone who met her felt it. She was just an affirming person.”

He added: “Radical politics could be intimidating and frightening because the questions are so hard, but Roz Zinn made it all seem like the most natural thing in the world to ask the tough questions. She took the threat away.”

Blending the arts with activism, Ms. Zinn worked for many years as a social worker and was an actor and musician. While her husband rose to prominence as a writer and a professor at Boston University, hers was the unseen hand shaping sentences that inspired his readers and students.

She was 85.  My sympathies to Howard.