Co-Sponsored by the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at Fairfield University, Congregation B'nai Israel of Bridgeport, and the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
Dara Horn, PhD, is the award-winning author of six books, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002), The World to Come (Norton 2006), All Other Nights (Norton 2009), A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013), and Eternal Life (Norton 2018), and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews (Norton 2021). One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists, she 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 JW Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Dr. Horn’s books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s Best 25 Books of the Decade, and The San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year, and have been translated into eleven languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet.
She received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University. Dr. Horn has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and has 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.
A roundtable discussion featuring Evan Bernstein, CEO and national director of CSS (Community Security Service), and former vice president of the Northeast division of the ADL, will follow Dr. Horn's lecture.