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Dara
Horn was born in New Jersey in 1977 and received her Ph.D. in comparative
literature from Harvard University in 2006, studying Hebrew and Yiddish. In 2007 Dara Horn was
chosen by Granta magazine as one of the
Best
Young American Novelists.
Her first novel, In
the Image, published by W.W.
Norton when she was 25, received a 2003 National Jewish Book Award, the
2002 Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and the 2003 Reform Judaism Fiction
Prize. Her second novel, The
World to Come, published by
W.W. Norton in January 2006, received the 2006 National Jewish Book Award
for Fiction, the 2007 Harold U. Ribalow Prize, was selected as an Editors'
Choice in The New York Times Book Review and as one of the Best
Books of 2006 by The San Francisco Chronicle, and has been
translated into eleven languages. She has taught courses in Jewish
literature and Israeli history at Harvard and at Sarah Lawrence College,
and has lectured at universities and cultural institutions throughout the
United States and Canada. Her most recent novel, All Other Nights,
published in April 2009 by W.W. Norton, was selected as an Editors' Choice
in the New York Times Book Review. She lives with her
husband, daughter and two sons in New Jersey.
> Contact
Dara Horn:
dara@darahorn.com
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