Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies

We will speak with award-winning novelist, essayist and podcast host Dara Horn about her new book of essays, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present. There will be time for your questions and comments.

Dara Horn is the award-winning author of six books, including the novels In the Image (2002), The World to Come (2006), All Other Nights (2009), A Guide for the Perplexed (2013), and Eternal Life (Norton 2018), and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (2021). One of Granta magazine’s ‘Best Young American Novelists’ (2007), Horn 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 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. She is a regular columnist in Tablet Magazine.

Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University and 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.