Judith Krantz, Novelist Who Wrote Tales of Sex and Shopping, Dies at 91

  • One of the most commercially successful female novelists
  • Penned ‘The Myth of the Multiple Orgasm’ for Cosmopolitan

Judith Krantz

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Judith Krantz, the writer of best-selling novels such as “Scruples” and “Princess Daisy” who stoked women’s yearnings for professional success, romantic adventure and Rodeo Drive fashion, has died. She was 91.

Krantz died at her home in California of natural causes, the Associated Press reported, citing her son, Tony Krantz, a TV and movie producer.