Sonia Taitz

Featured at the CHICAGO TRIBUNE/​PRINTERS' ROW LIT FEST:
AUTHOR TALK AIRED ON C-SPAN

Praised by PEOPLE, VANITY FAIR, READERS' DIGEST "Can't Miss" List

Nominated for BEST MEMOIR of the YEAR -- FOREWORD Magazine

Nominated for the SOPHIE BRODY MEDAL -- AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

"One of the YEAR'S BEST READS" -- The Jewish Journal

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: "A Beautiful and Brave Memoir."

Featured on Ron Hogan/​ Beatrice Podcast LIFE STORIES: THE ART OF THE MEMOIR

BOOKAHOLICS says:

"There have been many books written on the Holocaust (I have certainly read the gamut) but ... the love that Sonia has for her parents, in spite of all their flaws, is truly amazing. She wants them to move forward instead of constantly backwards. Sonia's experiences and the people that she meets open her parents' eyes and helps them heal.

THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER is extremely moving, sad, funny and gorgeously written. Sonia is a wordsmith. Every page is both descriptive and lyrical.

I loved this book and didn't want it to end. Very highly recommended."

Amazon "Hot New Read."

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SONIA TAITZ is an author, playwright, and essayist. She is also a summa cum laude graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, and received a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.Phil in 19th Century English Literature from Oxford University, where she was awarded the Lord Bullock Prize for Writing.

Sonia has written extensively for The New York Times and The New York Observer, where she held a column. Her plays have been performed at the Oxford Playhouse, numerous venues in New York City (including Circle Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Primary Stages), as well as Washington D.C.'s National Theatre.

Sonia's popular first book, MOTHERING HEIGHTS, was featured PEOPLE, excerpted in the POST, and discussed on The Today Show, NPR, CNN, and other national venues. Oprah Winfrey highlighted a section in O Magazine; this excerpt has been listed in numerous anthologies (including the Columbia Encyclopedia), and served as a segment headline for a PBS special on love, narrated by Anna Deveare Smith.

IN THE KING'S ARMS, a literary and romantic novel published in 2011, was praised in THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. It was also featured in the Jewish Book World, the magazine of the Jewish Book Council. ForeWord Reviews placed the author "in the province of the best poets, playwrights, and novelists."

The novel describes an impetuous love affair between the daughter of Eastern European refugees and the black-sheep son of British anti-Semites. Author and critic Jesse Kornbluth compared Sonia favorably to Philip Roth and Martin Amis, and added: "Move over, Evelyn Waugh!"

THE WATCHMAKER’S DAUGHTER tells the story of an American child of Yiddish-speaking, Orthodox concentration camp survivors. We track this headstrong girl through an ambitious quest to rescue her parents from enduring trauma – and in the process, heal herself. From her law degree at Yale to a love story at Oxford, the journey climaxes with a surprising and catalytic moment that changes everything. It is a classic tale of forging an individual, American identity which blends past, present and future.

SONIA TAITZ 's next book will be the novel, DOWN UNDER. The book fictionally depicts the broken-down life of a notorious movie star. We see the backstory of the boy he was, the Jewish girl he loved, and why he's turned to alcohol and anti-Semitism as he wends his way back to her. (If you're thinking of Mel Gibson, you might be right.)