Irma Kurtz

Irma Kurtz (born 1935) is an American-born UK-based agony aunt, who has worked in that capacity for Cosmopolitan magazine for over 40 years.

Kurtz was born in New Jersey in 1935, and grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her father was a dentist. She has a bachelor's degree in English literature from Columbia University.

After university, Kurtz worked as a journalist, travelling in Europe and living in Paris, before settling in London. Kurtz worked for Nova magazine from its beginning in 1965, and joined Cosmopolitan in 1972.

Kurtz has written three self-help books, two novels and three travel books.

Kurtz was the writer and presenter of Mediterranean Tales, a ten-part series for BBC4.

She has a son, Marc, a television director, who is married with four children.

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