Marilyn bergman biography

* Alan and Marilyn Bergman were also the 1997 recipients of The Johnny Mercer Award, the SHOF’s highest honor
 
Alan and Marilyn Bergman are recognized as one of the most successful lyric writing teams in history.

Marilyn Bergman, the songwriting giant and music industry fixture who, with her husband Alan, wrote the lyrics to Oscar-winning songs like Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” and Michel Legrand’s “The Windmills of Your Mind,” has died at the age of 93.

Born Marilyn Keith, she was a music major at New York's High School of Music and Art and later studied psychology and English at New York University.

After college, she moved to Los Angeles where she met, collaborated with and then married Alan Bergman.

The Bergmans were inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in 1980, and in 1997, joined the select company of composers and lyricists who enjoy a second c