Judith Guest (born March 29, 1936), in Detroit, Michigan) is an American novelist and screenwriter. March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: The Motor City, Motown Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Official website: www. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ...

The great-niece of Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), who had been a Poet Laureate of Michigan, Judith Guest graduated from a Detroit High school in 1954 then studied English and psychology at the University of Michigan, graduating with a BA in Education. She taught at a public school for a number of years before making the decision to devote herself full time to completing a novel. Edgar Albert Guest (August 20, 1881 – August 5, 1959) was a prolific United States poet popular in the first half of the 20th century. ... A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events. ... Official language(s) English de-facto Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 11th 96,716 mi² 250,494 km² 239 miles 385 km 491 miles 790 km 41. ... This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ...

Her first book, Ordinary People, published in 1976, was made into a 1980 film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This novel, and her two other works, Second Heaven (1982), and Errands (1997) are about adolescent children forced to deal with a crisis in their family. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film, Rachel River. This article is about the 1980 film; songs with the same title have been performed by Mary Mary and John Legend. ... See also: 1975 in literature, other events of 1976, 1977 in literature, list of years in literature. ... // Events April 30 - The Roger Daltrey film, McVicar, opens in London. ... The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ...

In 1988 she published the mystery, Killing Time in St. Cloud. Her most recent book was released in 2004 under the title, The Tarnished Eye : A Novel of Suspense and is loosely based on a true unsolved crime in her native Michigan.

Bibliography:

• Ordinary People (1976)
• Second Heaven (1982)
• Killing Time in St. Cloud (1988)
• Errands (1997)
• The Tarnished Eye : A Novel of Suspense (2004)