Trivia

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 137, pages 60-63. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Down the years, she lived with three different men, but she never married and she never wanted to have children.

Although her father didn't want her to go to college, she went regardless, having bagged herself a scholarship, but dropped out after two years, after which she slowly built a career in journalism for herself. By the time she was in her early 30s she was a reporter for the "Village Voice", a freelance writer for various glossy magazines, and a full-time network news writer at ABC-TV, a lone woman in a "defiantly male preserve of clacking typewriters and cranking moviolas".

She was an only child. Her father, a dress salesman in the garment district, had come to America from the Polish shtetl where he was born, where he had married her much younger mother, a secretary.