Judith Guest (born March 29, 1936) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
She was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest (1881–1959).
[1] Guest taught at a public school for several years before deciding to work full-time completing a novel.
Guest's most recent book, The Tarnished Eye (2004), is loosely based on a real unsolved crime in her native Michigan.
Guest was married for nearly 50 years to her college sweetheart, businessman Larry LaVercombe (1936-2009).