{"id":127353,"date":"2017-10-30T00:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T04:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=127353"},"modified":"2017-10-30T00:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T04:05:41","slug":"jane-juska-who-wrote-about-late-in-life-sex-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/30\/jane-juska-who-wrote-about-late-in-life-sex-dies-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Juska, who wrote about late in life sex, dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Juska died Oct. 24 at a Chico care facility after a long illness, her son, Andy Juska, told the San Francisco Chronicle. (Photo; Jane Juska\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CHICO, Calif. — Jane Juska, whose chronicle of searching for sex as a woman in her 60s became a bestselling memoir and later a stage show, has died in California. She was 84.<\/p>\n

Juska died Oct. 24 at a Chico care facility after a long illness, her son, Andy Juska, told the San Francisco Chronicle for a story Saturday.<\/p>\n

She was a retired and divorced schoolteacher living in Berkeley, California, when she wrote her memoir, \u201cA Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance,\u201d published in 2003.<\/p>\n

Inspiration for the book came after Juska took out a personal ad in the New York Review of Books that said: \u201cBefore I turn 67, next March, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Juska found herself with numerous responses from men of all ages that led to flings that she said changed her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just bubbling,\u201d she told the Chronicle in a 2003 profile. At first she considered turning her experiences into a novel, but she eventually decided to tell the true stories. Her tales of dating and romance became the memoir, which was titled after an antiquated term for a promiscuous woman.<\/p>\n

The bestseller landed her on TV with Oprah Winfrey and Charlie Rose and was adapted into a one-woman show starring Sharon Gless that was performed in San Francisco, Miami and London.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was funny & brave,\u201d Gless said on Twitter about Juska. \u201cI loved her very much.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2006 Juska published a second memoir, \u201cUnaccompanied Women,\u201d about her days before the personal ad.<\/p>\n

Before becoming an author, Juska taught English for more than three decades, at Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, California, Saint Mary’s College of California and San Quentin State Prison.<\/p>\n

She was also a freelance writer, contributing essays to magazines including Vogue and Self.<\/p>\n

In addition to her son, Juska is survived by her daughter-in-law, Mary; her sister, Sue; and two granddaughters.<\/p>\n

A memorial ceremony is planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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