WRITER

Judith Krantz

1928 - 2019

Judith Krantz

Judith Krantz (née Tarcher; January 9, 1928 – June 22, 2019) was an American magazine writer, fashion editor, and novelist. Her first novel Scruples (1978) was a New York Times best-seller and was translated into 50 languages. Scruples, which describes the glamorous and affluent world of high fashion in Beverly Hills, California, helped define a new sub-genre of the romance novel - the bonkbuster or "sex-and-shopping" novel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Judith Krantz has received more than 344,322 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Judith Krantz is the 5,604th most popular writer (down from 4,607th in 2019), the 8,448th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,600th in 2019) and the 652nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

340k
Page Views (PV)
45.64
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
22
Languages Editions (L)
2.90
Effective Languages (L*)
3.54
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Notable Works

Lovers

Fiction, Women in the advertising industry, Ficción

Lovers (Scruples #3) by Judith Krantz 3.46 · Rating details · 796 ratings · 24 reviews Lovers is pure Krantz, an intoxicating dance of love lost, stolen, and found among women and men who lure each other with potent combinations of money, talent, ambition, and passion. Chief among them is irresistible Gigi Orsini, the high-spirited, merry, adventurous creature who grew up into enchanting womanhood in Scruples Two. Now Gigi is working as a copywriter in a new Los Angeles advertising agency, with her creative "teammate," David Melville, a brilliant young art director who joins her in seeking new accounts. The agency is headed by dashing Archie Rourke, humorous Byron Bernheim and the severely difficult beauty, Victoria Frost, daughter of the famed Millicent Frost Caldwell who, with her husband Angus Caldwell, owns one of New York's largest advertising agencies. Ben Winthrop, a proper Bostonian and an enormously successful mall builder, attempts to capture Gigi's quicksilver affections, although his fierce contenders for the same prize include both David Melville and the dominating film director, Zach Nevsky. Meanwhile, Billy Winthrop Ikehorn Orsini Elliott, the unforgettably impulsive heroine of Scruples, and her new husband, the great charmer, Spider Elliott, are busy with their own fascinating lives, as are Gigi's father, canny film producer Vito Orsini, and her best friend, the ravishing Sasha Nevsky, none of whom can be forgotten from Scruples and Scruples Two. Lovers completes all the stories set in motion in the first two novels, yet it stands entirely on its own as a slice of life in the exciting years of 1983 and 1984.

1994

Mistral's daughter

Fashion, Fiction, Artists

1982

Till We Meet Again

Women, Fiction, Love stories

1988

Scruples

Fiction, Fiction in English, Love stories

Its trilling, and intersting. Very attractive

1978

Princess Daisy

Fiction, Fiction in English, Princesses

She was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. But everyone called her Daisy. She was a blonde beauty living in a world of aristocrats and countless wealth. Her father was a prince, a Russian nobleman. Her mother was an American movie goddess. Men desired her. Women envied her: Daisy's life was a fairytale filled with parties and balls, priceless jewels, money and love. Then, suddenly, the fairytale ended. And Princess Daisy had to start again, with nothing. Except the secret she guarded from the day she was born.....

1980

Dazzle

Fiction, Women photographers, Inheritance and succession

Jazz Kilkullen "juggles a demanding career as the world's foremost photographer of celebrities with a complicated love life, involving three all-but-irresistible men."--Jacket.

1990