title: Judith Guest
text: 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). She is a winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.
  
  Guest's first book, Ordinary People was published in 1976/ The 1980 movie version, Ordinary People won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
  
  Guest co-authored the mystery Killing Time in St. Cloud (1988) with novelist Rebecca Hill. Guest's most recent book, The Tarnished Eye (2004).
  
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  1936 births
  Living people
  American novelists
  American screenwriters
  Writers from Detroit