Personal Life
Goodman was born in Newton, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Jacob Holtz and Edith Weinstein Holtz, and is the sister of architecture critic and author Jane Holtz Kay. Goodman graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1963 with a degree in modern European history. She married her first husband, Anthony Goodman, in 1963 and gave birth to their daughter Katie Goodman in 1968, a musical comedian. After their divorce, she married her second husband, journalist Bob Levey, in 1982. Her step-son Gregory Levey died by self-immolation in 1991 protesting the First Gulf War.
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