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Tara Ison (born 1964) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She is the author of three novels: Rockaway (Soft Skull Press, 2013), The List (Scribner, 2007), and A Child out of Alcatraz (Faber & Faber, 1997), which was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
- 1964 (age 58–59)
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- American
- Bennington College (MFA)
Tara Ison is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer who has published six books, including The List, Rockaway, and At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf. She has also won several awards and grants for her writing, such as the PEN Southwest Book Award, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Yaddo Residency.
Tara Ison is the author of the short story collection BALL, the novels THE LIST, ROCKAWAY, and A CHILD OUT OF ALCATRAZ, a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards. Her essay collection REELING THROUGH LIFE was the winner of the 2015 PEN Southwest Award for Creative Nonfiction.
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“Tara Ison is one of the premiere stylists of her generation, and Rockaway is pretty much perfect — a meditation on art, aloneness, ambition, love, religion, and the unknowable and unquenchable thirst that is human desire. Just start reading. You won’t stop.” — Charles Bock, Beautiful Children
Tara Ison, a writer and stepmother of Erika Korda, shares her stepmother's story of survival as a hidden child in WWII Hungary. Erika Korda tells her childhood, her escape, and her new identity as a Catholic orphan in this interview with Tara Ison, who wrote a novel based on her stepmother's experiences.
Feb 21, 2023 · Hidden with a Catholic family, posing as their cousin, she becomes increasingly--and dangerously--aligned with her invented identity. Written in exquisite prose, Tara Ison’s novel of persona, identity and survival in collaborationist France is chilling and profoundly moving.
Tara Ison is the author of three novels, a short story collection, and a collection of essays, as well as a co-writer of the cult film "Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead". She has also received many awards and fellowships for her writing and teaching, and teaches fiction and screenwriting at ASU and other institutions.
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