Judith Guest

Judith Guest (born March 29, 1936) is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. She is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest (1881–1959).^[1] She is a winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.

Guest's first book, Ordinary People was published in 1976/^[2] The 1980 movie version, Ordinary People won the Academy Award for Best Picture.^[1]

Guest co-authored the mystery Killing Time in St. Cloud (1988) with novelist Rebecca Hill. Guest's most recent book, The Tarnished Eye (2004).^[2]