What is Ellen Meiksins Wood?
[[File:Ellen Meiksins Wood.jpg|thumbnail|Wood in [[Berlin]], May 2012]] '''Ellen Meiksins Wood''' (April 12, 1942 &ndash; January 13, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]]-[[Canadians|Canadian]] [[Marxist]] historian and scholar. She was a publisher of the ''[[Monthly Review]]'' from 1997 to 2000, along with [[Harry Magdoff]] and [[Paul Sweezy]]. She wrote over ten books. Her books ''The Retreat from Class'' and ''The Origin of Capitalism'' won awards. She was a leading Marxist [[theorist]]. Wood was born in [[New York City]]. Her parents were [[Latvia]]n [[Jews]]. She was married to [[Neal Wood]] until his death in 2003. They had two children. She was later married to politician [[Ed Broadbent]]. Wood died from [[cancer]] on January 13, 2016 in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]]. She was 73.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/ellen-meiksins-wood-author-and-third-wife-of-ed-broadbent-dead-at-73-365339821.html|title=Ellen Meiksins Wood, author and wife of Ed Broadbent, dead at 73|work=Winnipeg Free Press|date=January 14, 2016|access-date=January 15, 2016}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Ellen Meiksins}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:American political scientists]] [[Category:Canadian Jews]] [[Category:Marxists]] {{US-bio-stub}}