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Tama Janowitz (born April 12, 1956) is an American novelist and a short story writer. She is often referenced as one of the main "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney. [2] Her novel-in-stories Slaves of New York (1986) was adapted into the movie of the same name in 1989.
Janowitz was born on May 25, 1980, in New York City and is a first-generation American. He has Eastern European and Jewish ancestry. His mother, Katherine Sborovy, a writer, was from Bratislava, Slovakia. His father, James Janowitz, an attorney, is from Berlin, Germany.
Janowitz was born in the state of New York on June 22, 1973. [1] She is Jewish. [2] She grew up on the South Shore of Long Island; she later used it as the setting for some of her novels. [3] Janowitz graduated from Cornell University in 1995. She attended law school at Hofstra University. She worked as an attorney for years. [1]
Janowitz is a surname, a Yiddish-language variant of the Polish-language surname Janowicz. Notable people with the surname include: Gundula Janowitz (born 1937), Austrian singer; Hans Janowitz (1890–1954), Czech-German writer; Morris Janowitz (1919–1988), American sociologist; Tama Janowitz (born 1957), American writer
In the September/October 2005 issue of Pages magazine, the literary Brat Pack was identified as Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Jay McInerney, and Mark Lindquist. McInerney and Janowitz were based in New York City. Others affiliated with this group include Susan Minot, Donna Tartt, Peter Farrelly and David Leavitt.
Maram al-Masri (born 1962), Syrian/French poet and writer Fatima al-Taytun (born 1962), Bahrain poet Elizabeth Alexander (born 1962), American poet, essayist, playwright and academic
Jonathan D. Moreno, BA 1973, professor at the University of Pennsylvania; Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress; author; Sharon Oster, BA 1970, Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Yale School of Management; Tina Park, trustee, Los Angeles Community College District; Victor Ricciardi B.B.A. 1991, professor of business and ...
Hans Janowitz (2 December 1890 – 25 May 1954) was a German author. Janowitz was an officer in World War I , but returned from it as a pacifist . Shortly after the war ended, he met the similarly minded Carl Mayer in Berlin, who suggested he work as an author.