Editing Carl Djerassi (section)

==Personal life==
Djerassi described himself as a "Jewish atheist".<ref>"Carl Djerassi: The Steroid King". Carl Djerassi: The Steroid King. N.p., n.d. Web. October 1, 2016. His parents were both Jewish, but although young Carl was bar mitzvahed, the family was not religiously observant. He characterizes himself as a "Jewish atheist".</ref>

Djerassi was married three times and had two children. He and Virginia Jeremiah were married in 1943 and divorced in 1950.<ref name="Australia">{{cite news|last1=Lennon|first1=Troy|title=Father of the pill became patron of young artists|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/father-of-the-pill-became-patron-of-young-artists/story-fnpoi7d0-1227205391534?nk=92a64cd90b71698c3f631b579aebe0c1|access-date=February 2, 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph (Australia)|date=February 3, 2015}}</ref> Djerassi married writer Norma Lundholm (1917–2006) later that year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://almanacnews.com/print/story/2006/12/13/obituary-norma-lundholm-djerassi-writer-poet-world-traveler|title=Obituary: Norma Lundholm Djerassi, writer, poet, world traveler|date=December 13, 2006|website=almanacnews.com|access-date=April 7, 2020}}</ref> They had two children together, and were divorced in 1976.<ref name="WhoWho">{{cite book|editor-last1=Sleeman|editor-first1=Elizabeth|title=The International Who's Who 2004|date=2003|publisher=Europa|location=London|isbn=978-1-85743-217-6|page=437|edition=67th|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SK-81iI6NJQC&pg=PA437|access-date=February 2, 2015}}</ref> One year after his second divorce, Djerassi began a relationship with [[Diane Middlebrook]], a Stanford University professor of English and biographer.<ref name="DM death Stanford">Haven, Cynthia, [http://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/middlebrook-010908.html "Diane Middlebrook, professor emeritus and legendary biographer, dies at 68"], Stanford University, January 9, 2008.</ref> In 1985, they were married and they lived between San Francisco and London, until her death on December 15, 2007, due to cancer.<ref name="DM death Stanford" /><ref>Mills, John, ''Which Yet Survive. Impressions of Friends, Family and Encounters'', Quartet Books, London, 2017</ref>

On July 5, 1978, Djerassi's artist daughter Pamela (born 1950; from his second marriage, to Norma Lundholm), committed suicide,<ref name=conversation>{{Vimeo|id=59485470|title=A Conversation with Carl Djerassi}} interviewed by Roger Kornberg, ''Annual Review of Biochemistry''</ref><ref name=bbcdid>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00947hh Carl Djerassi, Desert Island Discs], [[BBC Radio 4]], 2002.</ref> which is described in his autobiography. With Middlebrook's help, Djerassi then considered how he could help living artists, rather than collecting works of dead ones. He visited existing artist colonies, such as [[Yaddo]] and [[MacDowell Colony|MacDowell]], and decided to create his own, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.<ref name=GuardianInterview/><ref name=ArtistsProgram/> He closed his cattle ranch and converted the barn and houses to residential and work space for artists.<ref name=Residences>{{cite news|last1=King|first1=John|title=Diane Middlebrook Memorial Writers' Residences|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Diane-Middlebrook-Memorial-Writers-Residences-2311176.php|access-date=February 4, 2015|work=SFGate|date=September 7, 2011}}</ref><ref name=ArchDigest>{{cite news|title=Cass Calder Smith's Bold New Cabins at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program|url=http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2012/06/cass-calder-smith-djerassi-resident-artists-program|access-date=February 4, 2015|work=Architectural Digest|date=June 8, 2012}}</ref> He and his wife moved to a high rise in San Francisco that they had renovated.

Carl Djerassi died on January 30, 2015, at the age of 91, from complications of liver and bone cancer.<ref name=nytobit>{{cite news |author=Robert D. McFadden  |title=Carl Djerassi, 91, a Creator of the Birth Control Pill, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/us/carl-djerassi-dies-at-91-forever-altered-reproductive-practices-as-a-creator-of-the-pill.html |quote=Carl Djerassi, an eminent chemist who 63 years ago synthesized a hormone that changed the world by creating the key ingredient for the oral contraceptive known as 'the pill,' died at his home in San Francisco on Friday. He was 91. His son, Dale, said the cause was complications of liver and bone cancer.... |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 31, 2015 |access-date=January 31, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://forward.com/articles/213863/carl-djerassi-who-helped-discover-birth-control-pi/?|title=Carl Djerassi, Who Helped Discover Birth Control Pill, Dies at 91|publisher=forward.com|date=January 31, 2015}}</ref> Upon his death he was survived by his son and grandson.