Pamela Moore (author)

Chocolates for Breakfast was republished in paperback and e-book editions in June 2013, with a new foreword by author Emma Straub.

On June 7, 1964, Moore's husband left to go to work, while she stayed home with their small child Kevin, while working on her next book, tentatively entitled Kathy. When he returned home from work, he found Moore dead on the floor next to her typewriter of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Other reviewers have noted, in the depiction of depression and suicide in "Chocolates," and the frantic mood swings of Brenda in "The Horsy Set," intimations of a bipolar disorder, for which diagnosis and treatment were at the time nearly non-existent. In 1963 Moore gave birth to a son, Kevin. Nine months later, in 1964, working on her final, unpublished novel Kathy on the Rocks, she committed suicide by gunshot.

In 1958, Moore married Adam Kanarek, a lawyer of Polish-Jewish origin who had "very little in common with the residents of Beverly Hills, the Westchester horse set, and the habitues of '21' and the Stork Club."

Her first book, Chocolates for Breakfast, was published when she was 18 and became an international bestseller. At the time, it was often associated with Bonjour Tristesse, a novel published two years earlier in France by 18-year-old Françoise Sagan. Since its publication in 1956, Chocolates for Breakfast appeared in 11 languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Swedish, and German. According to the Bantam paperback edition, the book went through 11 printings in the U.S. and sold over one million copies.

Pamela Moore (September 22, 1937 – June 7, 1964) was an American novelist best known for her debut novel Chocolates for Breakfast. She published her first novel, Chocolates for Breakfast, at age eighteen, which garnered her critical attention for its provocative themes involving its teenage protagonist.

She was born on September 22, 1937, the daughter of Don and Isabel Moore, both writers. Her parents divorced in the mid-1940s, and her father relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he worked as a story editor for Warner Brothers and RKO Pictures; her mother took a job as an editor for Photoplay in New York City. Between schooling, Moore spent her childhood splitting her time between New York and Los Angeles. She was educated at Rosemary Hall and Barnard College.