Judith Tick

Judith Fay Tick was born on January 4, 1943 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, US.^[2] She attended the City University of New York, studying with Barry S. Brook, Gilbert Chase, Daniel Heartz and H. Wiley Hitchcock, and receiving a PhD in 1979.^[2] Her dissertation was Towards a History of American Women Composers before 1870.^[2] Since 1986, Tick has taught at Northeastern University;^[2] she is now Professor Emerita there.^[3]

Her writings include the first biography of the modernist composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, which received both ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award and the Society for American Music's Irving R. Lowens Award.^[2] She co-edited Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950 (1986) with Jane M. Bowers.^[4][5] In 2023, she published a biography of the jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, after more than a decade of research.^[6][7]