Judith Perelman Rossner (March 31, 1935 - August 9, 2005) was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar. The novel was adapted into a 1977 movie starring Richard Gere and Dianne Keaton.
Rossner was born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. her book, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, fist started out as an article for Esquire Magazine, but the magazine later rejected it for publication. It was then that she began to write a novel instead. Rossner also wrote Emmeline in 1980, which was later made into an opera. She also wrote August, His Little Women, and Olivia.
Rossner died on August 9, 2005 at the age of seventy at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan.
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