Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78

Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78

ASSOCIATED PRESS
DEC. 18, 2021 8:24 AM PT

Eve Babitz, the Hollywood bard, muse and reveler who with warmth and candor chronicled the excesses of her native world in the 1960s and ’70s and became a cult figure to generations of readers, has died. She was 78.

Babitz biographer Lili Anolik confirmed that she died Friday, but did not immediately provide additional details.

Few writers captured a time and place so vividly as Babitz did. Her dispatches from the Troubadour night club, Chateau Marmont, the Sunset Strip and Venice Beach became as much a testament of her era as a Jack Nicholson movie or an album by the Eagles or Fleet...