But it's not religious." She has been an atheist since age 7. Lebowitz describes her " Jewish identity ethnic or cultural or whatever people call it now. She developed a love of reading from an early age, to the point that she would surreptitiously read during class and neglect her homework.
Her parents were Ruth and Harold Lebowitz, who owned Pearl's Upholstered Furniture, a furniture store and upholstery workshop. Lebowitz was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey. 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). Lebowitz gained fame for her books Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), which were combined into The Fran Lebowitz Reader in 1994. The New York Times has called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker. 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 and the New York Dolls. Frances Ann Lebowitz ( / ˈ l iː b ə w ɪ t s/ born October 27, 1950) is an American author, public speaker, and occasional actor.
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