Judith Rossner

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Judith Perelman Rossner (March 31, 1935 – August 9, 2005) was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was inspired by the murder of Roseann Quinn and examined the underside of the seventies sexual liberation movement. The novel was made into a movie starring Diane Keaton in 1977.

Though Looking for Mr. Goodbar remained Rossner's best known and best selling work, she continued to write. Her most successful post-Goodbar novel was 1983's August, about the relationship between a woman and her psychoanalyst, who has more emotional troubles than her patient. Rossner died on August 9, 2005, from complications of diabetes and leukemia at the age of 70.

[edit] List of works

• To the Precipice (1966)
• Nine Months in the Life of an Old Maid (1969)
• Any Minute I Can Split (1972)
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975)
• Attachments (1977)
• Emmeline (1980)
• August (1983)
• His Little Women (1990)
• Olivia (1994)
• Perfidia (1997)

[edit] External links

• 1983 Audio Interview with Judith Rossner by Don Swaim at Wired for Books.
• Bernstein, Adam (August 11, 2005). Judith Rossner, 70; 'Mr. Goodbar' Author. Washington Post
• Martin, Douglas (August 11, 2005). Judith Rossner, 70, Author of 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar.' New York Times