Fran Lebowitz

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October 27, 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey, The United States

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female

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Nonfiction, Entertainment

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Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz is an American author.

Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Lebowitz is best known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern day Dorothy Parker.

After being expelled from high school and receiving a GED, Lebowitz worked many odd jobs before being hired by Andy Warhol as a columnist for Interview. This was followed by a stint at Mademoiselle. Her first book was a collection of essays titled Metropolitan Life, released in 1978, followed by Social Studies in 1981, both of which are collected (with a new introductory essay) in The Fran Lebowitz Reader.

For more than twenty years she has been famous in part for not writing Exterior Signs of...more

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Books by Fran Lebowitz

Average rating: 3.74 · 1,334 ratings · 156 reviews · 10 distinct works

	The Fran Lebowitz Reader 3.91 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Metropolitan Life 3.83 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Social Studies 3.83 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Metropolitan Life/Social Studies by Fran Lebowitz, Karl Lagerfeld 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1911	My rating:
	Mr. Chas & Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Progress 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Breve manual de urbanidad 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	Tales from a Broad 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara, Fran Lebowitz (Introduction) 3.56 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 1935 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Serrote (Serrote, #7) by Al Hirschfeld (Contributor), Aleksandr Ródtchenko (Contributor), Jonathan Franzen (Contributor) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living , books , reader , reading , speaking , thinking , wisdom

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“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”
― Fran Lebowitz

tags: algebra , education , humor , mathematics

627 people liked it

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.”
― Fran Lebowitz

tags: death , inner-peace

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