Judith Krantz

Judith Krantz, Judith Tarcher native ( born January 9, 1928 in New York City ) is an American writer.

Life

Judith Krantz grew up in New York City. Birch Wathen Lenox She attended school and later studied at Wellesley College. After graduating in 1948 she moved to Paris, where she worked in public relations for the fashion industry. After a year, however, she returned back to the U.S. and began working as a journalist for Good Housekeeping. On July 4, 1953, she learned at a celebration of her high school girlfriend Barbara Walters her future husband, the film producer Steve Krantz know. The couple married only six months later, on 19 February 1954. The couple later had three children together and Krantz decided to give up her career as a journalist for the benefit of children and wrote from now on only occasionally as a freelance writer for magazines such as Maclean's, McCall's, Ladies 'Home Journal and Cosmopolitan, and that included her best-known article The Myth of the Multiple Orgasm.

When her husband took 1976 hours of flight time, Krantz accompanied him. She overcame her fear of flying and decided also other fears to deal with, also including writing a novel. Nine months after the decision was finished with her ​​first novel Scruples and 1978 he was transferred for the first time. The book later reached # 1 on the New York Times Beststellerliste. This she could sell her second novel for five million dollars and later the paperback rights for a further 3.2 million U.S. dollars. Princess Daisy and the following two novels also landed at number one on the bestseller list. In total, over 80 million copies have been sold in more than 50 languages ​​worldwide by their books. Her first six novels and Torch Song each served as a template for a film or television series, in which her ​​husband served as producer.

Works

  • Princess Daisy. Molden Verlag ( 1980), 604 pages, ISBN 3-217-01075-2
  • Mistral's Daughter. Bertelsmann Verlag ( 1985), 478 pages
  • Lady Manhattan. Del Rey (1987 ), 472 pages, ISBN 3-7645-7098-9
  • See you in Valmont. Del Rey (1989 ), 612 pages, ISBN 3-7645-4387-6
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