Judith Freeman is a novelist, essayist, critic, and short story writer.Judith is the recipient of many awards and prizes. In 1997 she received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, and also won the Western Heritage Award in 1992 for her novel Set For Life.Judith lives in Los Angeles and rural Idaho, dividing her time between an apartment in the MacArthur Park area of the city and a small farm on the Camas Prairie.