Judith Moore

From the New York Times, May 25, 2006: "Judith Moore, the author of Fat Girl, a searingly angry and widely praised memoir about being overweight, died on May 15 in Berkeley, Calif. She was 66. The cause was colon cancer, said her daughter Rebecca Moore. "At the heart of Fat Girl is the story of a brutal childhood. As a child Ms. Moore was shuttled between her mother and her maternal grandmother, both of whom beat her, she said. But her grandmother liked to cook, and so Judith devoured food,...See more

From the New York Times, May 25, 2006: "Judith Moore, the author of Fat Girl, a searingly angry and widely praised memoir about being overweight, died on May 15 in Berkeley, Calif. She was 66. The cause was colon cancer, said her daughter Rebecca Moore. "At the heart of Fat Girl is the story of a brutal childhood. As a child Ms. Moore was shuttled between her mother and her maternal grandmother, both of whom beat her, she said. But her grandmother liked to cook, and so Judith devoured food, desperate to fill the emptiness inside her. And as she grew fat, both women derided her. "Writing in The New York Times Book Review, the author Jane Stern called the book 'brilliant and angry and unsettling.'" "With her mordant humor and tart style, Ms. Moore was sometimes compared to another California writer, Joan Didion. "Ms. Moore was also a senior editor at the San Diego Reader, a weekly newspaper, where she was known for her almost uncanny intuition about how to bring out the best in writ See less