About the Author
Dara Horn is an award-winning novelist, essayist, professor, and scholar. Born in 1977, she is currently a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Harvard University, studying Hebrew and Yiddish. 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. It was also chosen as one of the Best Books of 2002 by the San Francisco Chronicle ("stunning and absorbing") and one of the Top Five Novels of 2002 by the Christian Science Monitor ( "a work of raw genius"), along with rave reviews throughout the United States and overseas. Her work has appeared in many national and international publications, and she has also worked for Newsweek, Time, and The New Republic. 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 new novel, The World to Come, will be published by W.W. Norton in January 2006. She lives with her husband and daughter in New York City.
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