Dara Horn – Friday Night Dinner and Discussion
2 Lake Street, San Francisco
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Charles Michael Scholar-in-Residence Weekend
Deep Dive into Dara Horn's latest book, People Love Dead Jews.
Dinner and Discussion
Friday, October 21, 2022 – 7:30 – 9:00pm
Join us for a private dinner and discussion with author, Dara Horn. She will share more about her acclaimed book and participate in a Q&A following dinner.
Dara Horn 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: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton 2021). One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007), 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, and 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 as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade, and 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 Magazine, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet Magazine.
This program is sponsored by the Charles Michael Lecture Endowment Fund
