My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

Judith Rossner did secretarial work in a real estate business to support herself. Attachments was followed by Emmeline the story of a fourteen-year-old farm girl who gets a factory job to support her impoveriJudith Rossnerd family. Goodbar remained Rossner's best known and best selling work Judith Rossner continued to write.

Judith Perelman Rossner (March 31 1935 – August 9 2005) was an American novelist best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Though Looking for Mr. Goodbar which was inspired by the murder of Roseann Quinn and examined the underside of the 1970s sexual liberation movement.