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  1. 1946 (age 77–78) New York City, U.S. Alma mater. Brandeis University. Occupation. writer. Judith Thurman (born 1946) [1] is an American writer, biographer, and critic. She is the recipient of the 1983 National Book Award for nonfiction for her biography Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller. [2] [3] Her book Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of ...

  2. Dec 14, 2022 · By Rhonda Garelick. Dec. 14, 2022. Judith Thurman notices everything. Meticulous observation has been a hallmark of her 50-year career as a writer whose laser-sharp gaze traverses millenniums ...

  3. Judith Thurman began contributing to The New Yorker in 1987 and became a staff writer in 2000. She writes about books, culture, and fashion. Her story on Yves Saint Laurent was chosen for “The ...

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  4. Dec 6, 2022 · A LEFT-HANDED WOMAN: Essays, by Judith Thurman. When I saw the name of Judith Thurman’s new essay collection, I was briefly amused. The Nobel laureate Peter Handke has a novella of almost the ...

  5. Judith Thurman is a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker magazine as well as a poet and biographer of subjects including writers Isak Dinesen and Colette, both women "who break rules and cross boundaries, in their writing and in their lives," wrote Richard Bernstein in his New York Times review of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette.

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  7. Photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe. Editor's Note: This interview originally appeared in Fashion Projects (Issue number 4). It is republished here with the kind permission of the author and Fashion Projects. It is an humbling experience to write about Judith Thurman — her beautiful and succinctly crafted sentences haunting one’s imaginary.

  8. Her subjects have included André Malraux, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Cristóbal Balenciaga. Thurman is the author of “Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller,” which won the 1983 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, and “Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette,” (1999), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography, and the ...

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