Judith Krantz, author of blockbuster romance novels including “Scruples” and “Princess Daisy” that sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, died Saturday in Bel-Air of natural causes. She was 91.
Her fantasy novels — “I have never written about real people,” she once said — focused largely on the lifestyles of the rich and the dangerously beautiful, with plenty of sex thrown in, of course. In her 2000 memoir, aptly titled “Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl,” Krantz explained that every one of her novels included at least one character who loses her virginity.
This drew a nasty rebuke from her many critics, including Roger W. Straus Jr., president of the prestigious publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux, who called Krantz’s giant paycheck “bad for publishers and bad for writers; bad for the whole publishing environment.” Judith Tarcher was born Jan. 9, 1928, in New York City to an advertising executive and an attorney. Upon graduating from the city’s Birch Wathen School, she attended Wellesley College from which she graduated in 1948.
At a Fourth of July party hosted by her high school friend Barbara Walters, she met film and TV producer and writer Krantz, who would eventually become her husband. They were married for 53 years until his death in 2007.
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