Judith Moore
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Judith Moore (born 1940 - died May 15, 2006) was an American author and essayist best known for her 2005 book Fat Girl: A True Story.
Moore was born in Oklahoma in 1940 and became an obese child, weighing 112 pounds by second grade ([1]); Fat Girl is a memoir of her childhood.
She moved to Florida as a teenager and graduated from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Following graduation, she became a journalist working for the San Diego Reader. She married and divorced twice, having two daughters.
Her first book The Left Coast of Paradise: California and the American Heart was a collection of essays published by Soho Press in 1987. It featured interviews with Herbert Marcuse and novelist Leonard Michaels.
Moore's second book Never Eat Your Heart Out published in 1997 is about the relationship between food and life and related heavily to her own life.
Moore died of colon cancer after three years of treatment in May 2006.
[edit] References
- Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. Accessed May 29 2006
