Krantz wrote for magazines before discovering, at age 50, the talent for fiction that made her rich and famous like the characters she created.
LOS ANGELES — Writer Judith Krantz, whose million-selling novels such as"Scruples" and"Princess Daisy" engrossed readers worldwide with their steamy tales of the rich and beautiful, died Saturday at her Bel-Air home. She was 91.
"I always ask myself if what I'm writing will satisfy a reader who's in a plane that can't land because of fog, or who's recovering from an operation in a hospital or who has to escape to a more delightful world for whatever reason," Krantz said in 1990."That is the test." So appealing were her sensational stories of high-powered heroines that each novel was reimagined for television as an episodic miniseries. Steve Krantz, a millionaire in his own right through such productions as the animated film"Fritz the Cat," helped translate his wife's work for TV.
Growing up, Krantz was a precocious student at New York's exclusive Birch Wathen school, once describing herself as the youngest, smartest and shortest girl in her class. After skipping two grades, she enrolled at Wellesley College at age 16. When she could earn no better than a B in a short story class, she decided she wasn't good enough to write fiction.
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