Dara Horn

b. 1977

Novelist Dara Horn grew up in New Jersey and holds a doctorate in literature from Harvard University. Her first novel, In the Image, deals with the supernatural and received the National Jewish Book Award, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Her third novel is set in the American Civil War. Horn was chosen by Granta magazine as one of the Best Young American Novelists.

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In the Image

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Before her death, Naomi had dragged Bill Landsmann to enough Holocaust movies that he knew exactly what would happen in them. His son and daughter-in-law knew better than to…

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On Filling Shoes

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I had a very unusual fifteenth birthday. During my birthday week, the end of April, I was traveling with 5,000 high school students from around the world, visiting concentration camps in Poland. I…