Moore, Judith 1940-2006
Moore, Judith 1940-2006
OBITUARY NOTICE— See index for CA sketch: Born May 4, 1940, in Milwaukee, WI; died of colon cancer, May 15, 2006, in Stillwater, OK. Editor and author. Moore was best known for her critically acclaimed autobiography Fat Girl: A True Story (2005). Her insecurities about her weight stemmed from a sad childhood marked by physical abuse from both her mother and grandmother. To comfort herself, she overate, which only resulted in more verbal and physical abuse from her family. She consequently developed a very poor self-image. She grew up to become a newspaper editor; her last job was with the weekly San Diego Reader. Moore's first book was the essay collection The Left Coast of Paradise: California and the American Heart (1987), but she was better known for her autobiographies that centered on her food addiction: Never Eat Your Heart Out (1997) and the more acerbic and self-critical Fat Girl: A True Story (2005). It was for the latter that she received the most critical attention and won comparisons to author Joan Didion.
OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:
BOOKS
Moore, Judith K., Never Eat Your Heart Out, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1997.
Moore, Judith K., Fat Girl: A True Story, Hudson Street Press (New York, NY), 2005.
PERIODICALS
New York Times, May 25, 2006, p. C15.