Judy Goldman

I’m the author of 8 books — 4 memoirs, 2 novels, and 2 collections of poetry My new memoir, The Rest of Our Lives, will be published May 2025. It's on a subject I'm an expert in -- aging! But I want it to be a guide for 40-year-olds, 80-year-olds, and everyone in between!

My recent memoir, Child: A Memoir (University of South Carolina Press), was named a “Must-Read Book in 2022” by Katie Couric Media and was a finalist for the Southern Book Award in Nonfiction..

My memoir, Together : Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap , was published in 2019 (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), and in paperback in 2020 (Anchor Books. Named one of best books of 2019 by Real Simple magazine. Starred review in Library Journal. Order today!

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