- She is the author of several books including Eve's Hollywood, Slow Days, Fast Company, Sex and Rage, Two By Two, L.A. Woman, and Black Swans.
- She began her career at Atlantic Records designing album covers for musicians like Linda Ronstadt, The Byrds, and Buffalo Springfield. Her most famous cover was a collage for the 1967 album Buffalo Springfield Again.
- Composer Igor Stravinsky was her godfather.
- Her articles and short stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire magazines.
- Her first brush with notoriety came through Julian Wasser's iconic 1963 photograph of a nude, 20-year-old Babitz playing chess with the artist Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of his landmark retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum.
- Attended Hollywood High School.
- Her father was of Russian Jewish descent and her mother had Cajun (French) ancestry.
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