Meredith Tax was born in Wisconsin and graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English. While studying in London, she became involved in the anti-war movement and decided she wanted to be an activist. Returning to the U.S. in 1968, she continued her anti-war work and was one of the initiators of Bread and Roses, an early socialist-feminist organization in Boston. Her first important piece of writing, “Women and Her Mind: the Story of Everyday Life” (1970), is considered a founding document of the women’s movement. Her books include The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917; Rivington Street, a leftwing feminist family saga of Jewish immigration; its sequel, Union Square; and Families, a children’s book. Tax served as president of Women’s World Organization for Rights, Literature, and Development, or Women’s WORLD which has played an important role in exposing the connections between gender and censorship, and in defending women writers under attack. Tax died at the age of eighty on September 25, 2022.