Andrea Boroff Eagan; Former President of National Writers Union

Andrea Boroff Eagan, 49, a journalist, educator and founding president of the National Writers Union. She wrote a feminist advice book for teen-age girls, “Why Am I So Miserable, If These Are the Best Years of My Life?” She later wrote “The New Born Mother: Stages of Her Growth” about the psychological changes in women after childbirth. From 1983 to 1987, Ms. Eagan served as president of the National Writers Union. A campus activist at Columbia University in the 1960s, she unofficially wed Richard Eagan in 1968 in a building taken over by students. They were later legally married. She taught at New York University and at La Guardia, Manhattan Community and Hunter colleges. In New York City on Thursday of cancer.