Author Bio
Dara Horn was born in New Jersey in 1977 and received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University in 2006. In 2007 Granta magazine selected Horn as one of the Best Young American Novelists.
Horn's first novel, In the Image, published 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 in 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. It has been translated into eleven languages. Her third novel, All Other Nights, published in April 2009 was selected as an Editors' Choice in the New York Times Book Review.
Horn has taught courses in Jewish literature and Israeli history at Harvard and Sarah Lawrence College; she has lectured at universities and cultural institutions throughout the United States and Canada. She lives with her husband, daughter and two sons in New Jersey. (From Wikipedia.)