Judith Guest
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 Judith Guest, photographed by Doug Lew |
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| Born: | March 29, 1936 Detroit, Michigan |
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| Occupation(s): | Novelist |
| Nationality: |  United States |
| Writing period: | 1976-present |
| Genre(s): | Literary fiction, mystery |
| Debut work(s): | Ordinary People |
| Website: | http://www.judithguest.com |
Judith Guest (born March 29, 1936) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
The great-niece of Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), who had been a Poet Laureate of Michigan, Judith Guest was born in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Dondero High School in Royal Oak in 1954, then studied English and psychology at the University of Michigan, graduating with a BA in education. She taught at a public school for a number of years before making the decision to devote herself full time to completing a novel.
Her first book, Ordinary People, published in 1976, was made into a 1980 film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This novel and two others, Second Heaven (1982) and Errands (1997), are about adolescent children forced to deal with a crisis in their family. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film Rachel River.
Guest co-authored the mystery Killing Time in St. Cloud (1988) with fellow novelist Rebecca Hill. Guest's most recent book, The Tarnished Eye (2004), is loosely based on a true unsolved crime in her native Michigan.
She is married to a businessman named Larry Lavercombe and has lived in Edina, Minnesota, since 1975.
[edit] Bibliography
- Ordinary People (1976)
- Second Heaven (1982)
- Killing Time in St. Cloud (with Rebecca Hill) (1988)
- The Mythic Family (essay) (1988)
- Errands (1997)
- The Tarnished Eye (2004)
