Tama Janowitz

Tama Janowitz (born April 12, 1957) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer.

Born in San Francisco to a psychiatrist father and literature professor mother who divorced when she was ten, Janowitz moved to the East coast in her younger years and started writing about life in New York, where she had settled down. However, it was not her novels but a collection of short stories, Slaves of New York (1986) that shot her to fame and made her a society figure. Slaves was also turned into a movie in 1989.

So far, Janowitz has published six novels. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tim Hunt, and their adopted daughter.

Novels

• American Dad (1981)
• A Cannibal in Manhattan (1987)
• The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group (1991)
• By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee (1996)
• A Certain Age (1999)
• Peyton Amberg (2003)

Nonfiction

• Area Code 212

See also: Tama Janowitz, 1957, 1981 in literature, 1986 in literature, 1987 in literature, 1989 in film, 1991 in literature, 1996 in literature, 1999 in literature, 2003 in literature