THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Judith Rossner
March 31, 1935 – August 9, 2005
“I wrote the last chapter of Looking for Mr. Goodbar at a deli, ’cause it was too scary to do at home.”
Best-selling author who wrote about the perils and pains of women in late-twentieth-century America in such acclaimed novels as Looking for Mr. Goodbar and August.

Photograph by Nancy Pike.
More About Judith:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- Judith Rossner discusses her book “Looking for Mr. Goodbar,” The Studs Turkle Radio Archive, July 18, 1975
- Books by Judith Rossner, Simon & Schuster
- Veteran Feminists event Salute to Feminist Writers, Barnard College, NYC.
- Wikipedia page