---
name: "Judith Thurman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/judith-thurman"
fi1m_id: "judith-thurman"
imdb_id: "nm0862189"
tmdb_id: 10635
wikidata_id: "Q12320398"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-27T08:15:38.253783+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Judith Thurman

## Identity

Judith Thurman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/judith-thurman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** judith-thurman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0862189
- **TMDB ID:** 10635
- **Wikidata ID:** Q12320398
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12320398, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862189/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10635

Writer. Born 1 January 1946 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1946, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1985–2010
- **Average Fi1m score:** 67, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 54 (1), 2010s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12320398, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862189/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10635

## Biography

Judith Thurman is an American writer, biographer and critic. Born in New York City in 1946, she graduated from Brandeis University in 1967. She began her career as a poet and translator before turning to essays and biography.

Her biography *Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller* (1982) won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1983 and formed the basis for the 1985 film *Out of Africa*. *Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette* (1999) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Thurman has been a staff writer for *The New Yorker* since 2000.

Her 2008 *New Yorker* article 'First Impressions' about the Chauvet Cave prompted Werner Herzog's documentary *Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (2010), on which she received a screenplay credit and served as co-producer.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (2010), Fi1m 80, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/cave-of-forgotten-dreams.md)
- *Out of Africa* (1985), Fi1m 54, Associate Producer, Book — [page](https://film.one/film/out-of-africa.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (2010), Screenplay — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/cave-of-forgotten-dreams.md)
- *Out of Africa* (1985), Book, Associate Producer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/out-of-africa.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/judith-thurman