NEW YORK (AP) -- Olivia Goldsmith, a best-selling novelist whose book "First Wives Club" was made into a movie starring Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler
and Diane Keaton, has died. She was 54.
Goldsmith had been in a coma since last Wednesday after complications resulting from anesthesia during plastic surgery, according to her lawyer, Steven Mintz. She died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on Thursday, he said.
Goldsmith was a management consultant who became one of the first women to be a partner at the firm Booz Allen Hamilton before she began writing
her distinctive edgy, humorous fiction. Her debut novel, in 1992, was "First Wives Club," the tale of three women whose husbands leave them for younger partners. The movie of the same name came out in 1996. Among her other novels were "The Bestseller," "Flavor of the Month," "Young Wives," and "Switcheroo."
