Marilyn Swartz Seven (March 22, 1947–May 15, 1997) went to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York where she majored in Psychology. She was a talented playwright and actress. She wrote her first play in 1976, Life Upon the Wicked Stage produced at the Lincoln Center Pavillion. In 1980 she won a Fellowship to the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. She organized the Twin Cities’ arts community to support Salman Rushdie in 1989. She had 21 plays produced in various cities around the United States and in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. She married Richard B. Shull and was married to him at the time of her death from breast cancer in 1997.