Judith Guest
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| Judith Guest | |
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| Born | March 29, 1936 Detroit, Michigan |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | United States |
| Writing period | 1976-present |
| Genres | Literary fiction, mystery |
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Judith Guest (March 29, 1936) is an American novelist and screenwriter; born in Detroit, Michigan, she is the great-niece of Michigan Poet Laureate Edgar Guest (1881–1959).
Judith attended Detroit's Mumford High School in 1951; when the Guest family moved to Royal Oak, Judith transferred Dondero High School, graduating in 1954. Miss Guest then studied English and psychology at the University of Michigan, graduating with a BA in education.[1] She taught at a public school for a number of years before making the decision to devote herself full time to completing a novel.
Her first book, Ordinary People, published in 1976, was made into a 1980 film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This novel and two others, Second Heaven (1982) and Errands (1997), are about adolescent children forced to deal with a crisis in their family. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film Rachel River.
Guest co-authored the mystery Killing Time in St. Cloud (1988) with fellow novelist Rebecca Hill. Guest's most recent book, The Tarnished Eye (2004), is loosely based on a true unsolved crime in her native Michigan.
Judith is married to businessman Larry LaVercombe; Larry was an All-City basketball player for Cooley High School and a graduate of the University of Michigan - where he met Miss Guest.[2] Judith and Larry have three sons and several grandchildren; all residing in Minnesota.[1]
[edit] Bibliography
- Ordinary People (1976)
- Second Heaven (1982)
- Killing Time in St. Cloud (with Rebecca Hill) (1988)
- The Mythic Family (essay) (1988)
- Errands (1997)
- The Tarnished Eye (2004)
