[2][3] Krementz grew up in Morristown, New Jersey and moved to New York City in her late teens.
[4] In 1961, she received a Nikon camera as a 21st birthday present, and continued to build a career as a photographer and photojournalist.
[10] In 1970, Krementz met Kurt Vonnegut during the production of his play Happy Birthday, Wanda June in Greenwich Village.
In 1980, her book The Writer's Image (David R. Godine, Boston) was published, featuring black-and-white photographs, with a preface written by Kurt Vonnegut, and an introduction by Trudy Butner Krisher.
[12] In 1984 Krementz was awarded the Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for “creatively produced books, works that make a difference.”[13] In 2004, a major exhibition of her work was held at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut.