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Judith Krantz

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Judith Krantz

Novelist Judith Krantz began her career as a fashion publicist, writer, and editor for numerous magazines, which would shape the themes of her popular and best-selling novels. Beginning with Scruples in 1978, Krantz’s books were about fashion, beauty, fame, money, and sex, and always featured working women.

Fiction, Popular in the United States

The explosion of writing by American Jewish women in the twentieth century produced not only serious fiction, poetry, essays, and autobiography but also a range of popular literature geared towards pleasure and light entertainment. Popular fiction by American Jewish women in the twentieth century featured genres from regional novels, sagas, historical novels, romances, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and humor.

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