In the Image

Dara Horn

2002

Barbarians at the Gates

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 take him to such things. But Naomi, forgivably naive, really seemed to think that these movies would help her get to know him better, better than she…

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Creator Bio

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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