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A Conversation with Dara Horn
November 30, 2021 at 5:00 pm
Dara Horn is the award-winning author of six books, including the novelsĀ In the ImageĀ (2002),Ā The World to ComeĀ (2006),Ā All Other NightsĀ (2009),Ā A Guide for the PerplexedĀ (2013), andĀ Eternal LifeĀ (Norton 2018), and the essay collectionĀ People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted PresentĀ (2021). One ofĀ GrantaĀ magazineās āBest Young American Novelistsā (2007), Horn is the recipient of two National Jewish Book Awards, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Harold U. Ribalow Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. She was a finalist for the Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Her books have been selected asĀ New York TimesĀ āNotable Books,āĀ Booklistās ā25 Best Books of the Decade,ā andĀ San Francisco Chronicleās āBest Books of the Yearā and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared inĀ The New York Times,Ā The Wall Street Journal,Ā The Washington Post,Ā The Atlantic,Ā Smithsonian Magazine, andĀ The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications. She is a regular columnist inĀ Tablet Magazine.
Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America, Israel, and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.
This event is sponsored by the Samuel R. āBudā Shorstein Chair of American Jewish Culture and Society.