October 19, 2006
Miriam Engelberg, 1958-2006
Miriam Engelberg, the author of
Cancer Made Me A Shallower Person: A Memoir In Comics, died Tuesday at her home in San Francisco, surrounded by friends and family.
The book was released in April of this year.
In
the biography on her web site, Engelberg says she started doing comics after listening to a Peter Kuper interview, and originally thought she would write comics for someone else to draw.
According to the Associated Press article, Engelberg worked for a non-profit organization called Compass Point and published a comic called
Planet 501c3 about "the non-profit world." This year's Harper-Collins memoir arose out of Engelberg's habit of doing cartoons to relieve stress; the first cancer-related one came while waiting for test results and the book grew from there. The author found out that the cancer was spread near the end of the book's completion.
She is survived by a husband, Jim, and son, Aaron. Miriam Engelberg was 48 years old.
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