Fran Lebowitz
Frances Ann Lebowitz (; born October 27, 1950) is an American author, public speaker, and actor. She is known for her
sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her
New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the 1970s and 1980s New York art scene, including
Andy Warhol,
Martin Scorsese,
Jerome Robbins,
Robert Mapplethorpe,
David Wojnarowicz,
Candy Darling, and the
New York Dolls. ''
The New York Times'' has called her a modern-day
Dorothy Parker. Lebowitz gained fame for her books ''
Metropolitan Life'' (1978) and ''
Social Studies'' (1981), which were combined into ''
The Fran Lebowitz Reader'' in 1994. She has been the subject of two projects directed by Martin Scorsese, the
HBO documentary film ''
Public Speaking'' (2010), and the
Netflix docu-series ''
Pretend It's a City'' (2021).
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