Miriam Linda Engelberg (January 7, 1958 – October 17, 2006)[2] was a graphic novelist and illustrator, whose battle with metastaticbreast cancer was chronicled in her bestselling comic memoir, Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person.
Engelberg was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia but raised in Lexington, Kentucky as a Quaker. She began practicing Judaism during college and later converted to Catholicism. She referred to herself as a "Catholic-Quaker-Jew". She worked as a teacher which provided fodder for her and a friend, Gayle Schmitt, to write and perform a black comedy, Spit Out Your Gun, It's School Policy.[3] In 2001, at the age of 43, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She observed the harrowing and difficult experience she had with cancer treatment. These observations, drawn in Engelberg's primitive style, would eventually be published as Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person. In August 2006, she revealed in her blog that her cancer had spread to her brain, and she was receiving palliative care through home hospice.[4] As of October 2006, Engelberg was still continuing to publish comics through her website, although her once weekly comic updates were growing less frequent and consistent.[citation needed]
Miriam Engelberg died on October 17, 2006, aged 48. She was survived by her husband and son. As a staff member at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, she served as both a technology trainer and resident cartoonist. Her cartoon Planet 501c3 was the first cartoon series depicting life in the nonprofit sector. She was credited with coining the term "accidental techie", describing many of her students who had a role as technology experts in small nonprofits despite having little or no formal training in technology. The term is widely used in the nonprofit sector and was inspiration for the book Accidental Techie: Supporting, Managing, and Maximizing Your Nonprofit's Technology.
^"United States Social Security Death Index" index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J5TW-5Q3 : accessed 25 Feb 2013), Miriam Linda Engelberg, 17 October 2006; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
^Engelberg, Miriam (2006-08-22). . Archived from the original on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2006-10-09.
External links
Miriam's Blog
NPR Article on Cancer-Themed Graphic Novels
Planet501c3 complete collection of nonprofit cartoons
January 13, 2023
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