Judith Thurman Quote

To cool off mind and body, she went rowing on the lake in the Bois. O healthy exercise, distract me from such thoughts that might unsettle a sturdy creature of my kind!

Judith Thurman

To cool off mind and body, she went rowing on the lake in the Bois. O healthy exercise, distract me from such thoughts that might unsettle a sturdy creature of my kind!

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About Judith Thurman

Judith Thurman (born 1946) is an American writer, biographer, and critic. She is the recipient of the 1983 National Book Award for nonfiction for her biography Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller. Her book Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette was a finalist for the 1999 nonfiction National Book Award. In 2016, she received the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
She is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.