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‘Scruples’ Romance Novelist Judith Krantz Dies at Age 91

R.I.P.

Her sex-saturated books sold 85 million copies.

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The bestselling romance novelist Judith Krantz has died at the age of 91. Krantz didn’t embark on a fiction-writing career until she was 50 years old, but her first novel, Scruples, was a steamy sensation. “If you’re going to write a good erotic scene, you have to go into details,” she once said. Her books—10 in total—have sold 85 million copies worldwide, according to the Associated Press.

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