Wrote the nonfiction guide "Delicious Sex: A Book for Women and the Men Who Want to Love Them Better," the best-selling novels "Blue Skies, No Candy" and "Doctor Love" and the 2006 memoir "Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess.".
Graduated from the University of Michigan.
Co-founded Citymeals on Wheels with culinary legend James Beard.
Received the 1992 James Beard Foundation's Humanitarian of the Year award.
Restaurant critic for New York magazine from 1968 to 2002.