Judith Krantz

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Judith Krantz (née Tarcher), January 9, 1928-June 22, 2019), a magazine writer and fashion editor who only switched to fiction as she neared the age of 50.

Scruples (1978), her first book, became a best-seller in New York City and has gone on to become a worldwide bestseller, translated into 50 languages.

Scruples, which refers to Beverley Hills, California, as the glamorous and affluent world of high fashion, helped establish a new sub-genre of romance fiction, the bonkbuster or "sex-and-shopping" book.

"A goddess of fiction" has also changed the publishing industry by becoming one of the first celebrity authors through her extensive touring and promotion.

Princess Daisy (1980), Till We Meet Again (1988), Dazzle (1990) and Spring Collection (1996) were among her later books.

In 2000, she published The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl, as an autobiography, Sex and Shopping.

Early years

Judith Bluma-Gittel Tarcher was born in New York City on January 9, 1928, the daughter of Mary (Braeger), a Lithuanian-born prosecutor, and Jack D. Tarcher, an advertising executive. Her family was Jewish. She graduated from the prestigious Birch Wathen School at the age of 16, becoming the "newest, smartest, and shortest girl" in her year. Krantz was first enrolled at Wellesley College and moved to Wellesley College.

Krantz's 1982 Boston Globe entry said she came to Wellesley with three goals: to date, to read every book in the library, and to graduate. "Totchy," as her dormmates put it, was the only one to have 13 days with 13 different men. Her grades were not as good as her extracurricular activities. Krantz received one A-plus in English, but not in her major and C average, and she had a B+ in everything else. During her sophomore year, Krantz had the opportunity to raise her profile when she took a short-story class. Despite the fact that she loved her writing, the professor decided not to give her an A because she had horrible spelling and that the B would teach her a lesson. Krantz appears to have learned the lesson: she did not write fiction again for 31 years.

Krantz, who graduated from Wellesley in 1948, moved to Paris, where she worked in fashion public relations. Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, and Hubert de Givenchy enjoyed attending chic soirées, borrowing couture gowns, and meeting influential people such as Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, and Hubert de Givenchy.

Krantz returned to New York City in the ensuing year, where she embarked on a career in magazine journalism. She worked in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping before being promoted to fashion editor and given the opportunity to write multiple articles for the magazine.

In 1953, Krantz attended a Fourth of July party hosted by Barbara Walters, her high school friend. There she met her future husband, the forthcoming film and television director Steve Krantz, and she shared her love there. The two were married the following year, on February 19, 1954. She gave birth to their first son three years ago and then moved to write part-time from home. She wrote several freelance articles for Maclean's, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, and Cosmopolitan. "The Myth of the Multiple Orgasm," she wrote in Cosmopolitan, was her best-known article. Krantz had the opportunity to interview numerous influential people during her magazine career.

In 1976, Krantz' husband began taking flying lessons. Despite the fact that she was afraid of flying, Krantz decided to join him. She was determined to face her remaining fears after overcoming that fear. For the first time since college, she attempted to write fiction. Despite the fact that her husband had been insisting that she was a natural storyteller, Krantz thought she was writing the book to convince him that she was not able to write good fiction.

Scruples, her first book, was published nine months after. Krantz, 50, was the year it was published in 1978, the year it was published. The books were not copyrighted under her own name, but rather by Steve Krantz Productions, which was an unusual turn of events for the time. According to the New York Times bestseller list, the first novel on the New York Times bestseller list ranked at number one. Two sequels were released: Scruples Two (1992) and Lovers (1994).

Princess Daisy, her second book, came out in 1980 and netted her an astounding $5 million before her debut. With the paperback rights selling for a then-record $3.2 million, it also became the top best seller, with the paperback rights going for a then-record $3.2 million. It concerns Daisy, the daughter of a Russian prince who must confront and tackle numerous difficult realities. Clive James' book is notable for being one of the first scathing reviews ever written. Krantz continued her good fortune with Mistral's Daughter (1982) (a multi-generational tale) and I'll Take Manhattan (1986), a thinly disguised portrait of the author. We Meet Again (1988), which began in 1910s Paris and continues to be popular until the Second World War, was the first to make the annual top ten bestseller lists, although later books have continued to be popular.

The Spring Collection (1996) returns to fashion, while The Jewels of Tessa Kent (1998) explores mother-daughter relationships - Krantz had a turbulent relationship with her own mother. She stopped writing that year at the age of 70 because she had nothing left to say to her readers. In over 50 languages, over 80 million copies of her books have gone out of print. Seven of her books have been also developed for television (as either films or mini-series), with her husband acting as executive producer on several of them. In 1992, she produced "Secrets," Judith Krantz' "Secrets," an original mini-series for television.

Krantz served on Compassion & Choices' Advisory Board, a non-profit committed to offering funeral options. She joined the Los Angeles Music Center board in 2006, becoming the first woman to serve on the board.

Steve Krantz, Krantz's husband, died of pneumonia in 2007. Tony Krantz and Nicholas Krantz, both of whom reside in the Los Angeles area, had two sons. Krantz was the sister-in-law of children's entertainer and television host Shari Lewis, who was married to Krantz' brother, Jeremy P. Tarcher, publisher of nonfiction books on health, psychology, and New Age spirituality. Mallory Lewis, Jeremy's niece, is a performer who appears in Jeremy's book.

Krantz died on June 22, 2019, at her Bel Air home in Los Angeles's Bel Air neighborhood.

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