Olivia Goldsmith
Olivia Goldsmith ( born January 1, 1949 in Dumont (New Jersey) as Randy Goldfield, † January 15, 2004 Manhattan) was an American writer.
Life
The writer was born in Dumont, New Jersey as Randy Goldfield and graduated from the University of New York. She first worked as a consultant and was one of the first female partner of Booz Allen Hamilton, before she started her career as a writer.
Olivia Goldsmith died on 15 January 2004 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan from the effects of plastic surgery. In anesthesia, which was required for the operation, she suffered a heart attack. Already on January 7, she had fallen into a coma from which she never awoke and died.
Writer career
Olivia Goldsmith, published in the course of her career, even under the pseudonyms Justine Goldfield and Justin Rendal, one of the world's most successful authors witty, ironic woman entertainment. In the early 1990s she was after the divorce from her husband left with nothing and wrote their anger from the soul. It followed from the novel "The First Wives Club ". He became a bestseller and sold more than five million copies. He was filmed for the cinema with the same title starring Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler in 1996. With her novel " The Furies " Olivia Goldsmith was able to build on the success. For this novel, the director Ivan Reitman ( "Ghostbusters" ) has acquired the film rights.
Bibliography (selection)
- The First Wives Club
- The club of crooks inside
- The Billy - effect
- Great Men
- Style with feeling. Clothes that fit to the soul
- The Bestsellers
- The beautiful hyenas
- Women 's Revenge
- Typically male