Judith V. Grabiner earned her B.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1960, and her Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard in 1966. She is the author of two books and numerous articles on the history of mathematics; one, The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus, has just been reprinted by Dover.

She has won the Lester Ford Award for articles of expository excellence in the American Mathematical Monthly on three separate occasions, and the Carl Allendoerfer Award for outstanding articles in Mathematics Magazine three times as well. In 2003 she received the Deborah Tepper Haimo Award for excellence in college or university teaching from the Mathematical Association of America.

She has spoken about "How not to be lied to with statistics" to a variety of audiences, from the Skeptics' Society to the Journalism and Women Symposium. Currently she is the Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor of Mathematics at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.