Judith Thurman

Judith Thurman (born 1946) is an acclaimed American writer, biographer, and critic, best known for her National Book Award-winning biography Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller (1983) and Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (1999), a finalist for the National Book Award. A longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, she has also received the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award for prose style and the Rungstedlund Prize. Her work explores boundary-breaking women writers and cultural figures.