Background
Judith Moore was born on March 15, 1940 in Oklahoma, United States. She then moved to Florida as a teenager.
Judith Moore was born on March 15, 1940 in Oklahoma, United States. She then moved to Florida as a teenager.
Judith graduated from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
While living in Berkeley, California in the early 1980s, Moore began to submit freelance book reviews and essays to weekly newspapers in the area, most frequently to the East Bay Express. She collected these pieces and published them in 1987 under the SoHo Press imprint as "The Left Coast of Paradise: California and the American Heart." The book included interviews with Herbert Marcuse and novelist Leonard Michaels. She published her second book, "Never Eat Your Heart Out" in 1998. This book was about the relationship between food and her life.
From the mid-1980s onward she wrote mostly for San Diego Reader, a weekly publication where she sometimes served, somewhat controversially, as editor. She specialized in book reviews and offbeat, whimsical feature subjects. In May 2006, Moore died of colon cancer after three years of treatment.
Physical Characteristics: During her childhood, Judith was an obese child, weighing 112 pounds by second grade.
Quotes from others about the person
She writes with a probing eye, with a view both humane and committed and yet distanced just enough to keep things honest.
Judith married and divorced twice, having two daughters.