{{short description|American writer}} {{infobox writer |name=Judith Grossman |occupation=Writer |nationality=American |education=Somerville College, Oxford<br>Brandeis University (PhD) |spouse=Allen Grossman (died 2014) |children={{flatlist| *Lev *Austin *Bathsheba }} }} '''Judith Grossman''' is an American writer. She earned a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, from which she received a First Class degree in English in 1958. She received a Ph.D. from Brandeis University, in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/english/grad/grads.html |title=''Distinguished Alumni'', Brandeis University |access-date=2009-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706185206/http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/english/grad/grads.html |archive-date=2008-07-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She has taught at Bennington College.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bennington.edu/go/graduate/mfa-in-writing/core-faculty |title=''Our past associate and core faculty'', Bennington College |access-date=2009-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402194022/http://www.bennington.edu/go/graduate/mfa-in-writing/core-faculty |archive-date=2009-04-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She also taught in the Creative Writing MFA programs at University of California, Irvine from 1992 to 1995 and the University of Iowa (1997). She was chairman of the liberal arts division at Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2DA1F3BF937A15752C0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all ''REFUSING TO BE A PUSSYCAT'', SUE MILLER, The New York Times, January 24, 1988]</ref>
She was raised Anglican.<ref name="Bethanne Patrick">{{cite web|url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=19#m395|title= The Writer's Life: Portrait of the Artist: Lev Grossman|author= Bethanne Patrick|date=August 16, 2011|work=Shelf Awareness}}</ref>
She was married to the poet Allen Grossman until his death in 2014. Her children are Lev Grossman, Austin Grossman, and Bathsheba Grossman.
==Works== {{Library resources box|by=yes|viaf=48251747}} *{{cite book |ref=none|url=https://archive.org/details/herownterms00judi|title=Her Own Terms|author=Judith Grossman|publisher=Soho Press Inc|year=1988|isbn=978-1-56947-289-7|url-access=registration}} *{{cite book |ref=none|url=https://archive.org/details/howaliensthinkst0000gros|url-access=registration|quote=Judith Grossman.|title=How Aliens Think: Stories|author=Judith Grossman|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|date=August 20, 1999|isbn=978-0-8018-6171-0}}
===Poetry=== *{{cite journal |ref=none|url=http://www.poetry.com/dotnet/P8921225/999/1/display.aspx|title=Golden Child|author =Judith Grossman| website=poetry.com}} {{dead link|date=May 2010}}
===Criticism=== *{{cite journal |ref=none|url=http://www.williamgaddis.org/infiction/swallowhardrevnyt.shtml|title=Mother Chose the Wrong Life|author =Judith Grossman| date=February 18, 1991|journal=The Gaddis Anthology}}
==Reviews== Publishers Weekly (October 1999) said in ''Her Own Terms'' Grossman achieved a balance of deadpan wit and understated emotion. Grossman depicts a generation of transatlantic post-war English drifters in the early '60s.
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