Ellen Willis (1941-2006) was the first rock critic for The New Yorker, an editor and columnist at The Village Voice, and co-founder of the radical feminist group Redstockings. Her writing appeared in numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and The Nation. She established the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University and wrote Beginning to See the Light and No More Nice Girls, both reissued from Minnesota in 2012, as well as Don't Think, Smile! Her award-winning posthumous collection of rock criticism, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music, was published in 2011, also by the University of Minnesota Press.