Francine Klagsbrun, born Francine Lifton in 1931, is a writer and Jewish feminist activist.[1] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College, a Bachelor of Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a master's degree in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts.[2] She edited The First Ms. Reader (1973) and Free to Be ... You and Me (1974).[2] Some of her books are Too Young to Die—Youth and Suicide (1976), Married People: Staying Together in the Age of Divorce (1985), and Jewish Days: A Book of Jewish Life and Culture Around the Year (1996).[2]