Welcome to the official website of Judith Freeman, author of the following works of fiction:

Family Attractions, The Chinchilla Farm, A Desert of Pure Feeling, Red Water, and the nonfiction book: The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and The Woman He Loved.

Her memoir, The Latter Days, published in 2016 by Pantheon Books, was called a "must-read memoir" by the Chicago Tribune, and selected as one of NPR's best books of the year.

Here are a few early reactions to this new book:

"The Latter Days, written with thoughtful, hard-won honesty, is the record of a girl growing up in a closed society rigidly governed by a male religious hierarchy-a profoundly undemocratic system that claims to embody American values. Painfully but with no rancor, Freeman makes vivid the security of belonging and the rewards of obedience, the costs of security and obedience, and the rewards and costs of seeking freedom. A brave and valuable book." - Ursula K Le Guin, author of The Left Hand of Darkness

"A poignant, searching memoir of self-discovery." - Kirkus Reviews

"An affecting and tender memoir." - Ron Carlson

"A beautiful, surprising, elegant memoir" - Janet Fitch

What Critics Are Saying About The Long Embrace:

“Compelling . . . Ms. Freeman knows Los Angeles as well as Marlowe himself . . . Like Cissy, when she crooks her finger, it’s impossible not to follow.” - The New York Times

“Aches with emotion and loneliness. . . Until now, no other book has made us view this great American writer afresh.” - Los Angeles Times

“May be the essential book on Raymond Chandler. Like his books, it offers a rational solution to a puzzle while at the same time retaining a sense of mystery.” - Chicago Tribune

“Complex and delicate . . . enthralled and enthralling . . The Long Embrace is one of the literary events of the year.” - Los Angeles Magazine

“Atmospheric and unusual . . . A restless hallucination of a book about a woman obsessed by a mystery that she knows she will never solve—and perhaps does not wish to solve.” - The New York Review of Books