In 1971, missing the city, Rossner moved back to New York with her children. unusual literary climate rich in universal implications.' After its publication, Rossner and her family moved to Acworth, New Hampshire, to live on a rural commune while her husband taught at a progressive school there.

In 1969, Rossner published her second novel, Nine Months in the Life of an Old Maid ( Dial Press), about a woman in her late 30s and her sister's unexpected pregnancy The New York Times complimented its '.

As Thomas Lask presciently noted in his review for The New York Times, ' is a lady we will hear from again.' This story of a young woman who married her way out of poverty was published by William Morrow in 1966 to positive reviews. She went to work instead in a real estate office (where she was 'bored out of mind') and finished her first novel, To the Precipice. She gave up a job at Scientific American because her interest in the work interfered with her writing. Rossner worked as a secretary at various jobs while continuing to write. She was unsuccessful in selling short stories to women's magazines, but, in 1963, she did publish a book for children, What Kind of Feet Does a Bear Have? ( Bobbs-Merrill), with illustrations by Irwin Rosenhouse. Robert Rossner taught Creative Writing at the Bronx High School of Science. The couple had two children, Jean (born 1960) and Daniel (born 1965). She left college to marry Robert Rossner (1932–1999), a teacher and writer. Īfter graduating from Taft High School, Rossner attended the City College of New York from 1952-54. She was also encouraged by an uncle, the American-Canadian writer Charles Yale Harrison, best known for his best-selling story of World War I, Generals Die in Bed (1930). Rossner wanted to be a writer, even before she could read or write, and dictated poems and stories to her 'warmly supportive' mother. Her father, Joseph Perelman, was a textile official her mother, Dorothy (Shapiro) Perelman, was a public school-teacher. Goodbar (1975) and August (1983).īorn in New York City, on March 31, 1935, Judith Louise Perelman was raised in the Bronx. Judith Rossner (Ma– August 9, 2005) was an American novelist, best known for her acclaimed best sellers Looking for Mr.

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