Tama Janowitz

Tama Janowitz (born 1957 San Francisco, California) is an American novelist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of Pages magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis, Mark Lindquist and Jay McInerney.^{[citation needed]}

Life

Her parents, a psychiatrist father, Julian Janowitz, and literature professor mother, Phyllis Janowitz, divorced when she was ten. She grew up with her mother in Massachusetts.

She graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in 1977, and from Hollins College with a M.A. in 1979.

She studied at the Columbia University School of the Arts and started writing about life in New York City, where she had settled down. She socialized with Andy Warhol and became well known in New York's literary and social circles. Her 1986 collection of short stories, Slaves of New York brought her wider fame. Slaves of New York was adapted into a 1989 film directed by James Ivory and starring Bernadette Peters. Janowitz wrote the screenplay and also appeared, playing Peters' friend.

Janowitz has published seven novels, one collection of stories and one work of non-fiction. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tim Hunt, and their daughter.

Awards

• 1975 Bread Loaf Writers fellowship
• 1976; 1977 Janoway Fiction prize
• 1982 National Endowment award

Fiction

• American Dad, Crown, 1981, ISBN 9780517565735; Picador, 1988, ISBN 9780330302678
• Slaves of New York Crown Publishers, 1986, ISBN 9780517561072
• A Cannibal in Manhattan Washington Square Press, July 1988, ISBN 9780671665982
• The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group, Crown Publishers, 1992, ISBN 9780517586983; Simon and Schuster, 1994, ISBN 9780671871505
• By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee Crown Publishers, 1996, ISBN 9780517702987
• A Certain Age Doubleday, 1999; Anchor Books, 2000, ISBN 9780385496117
• Hear that?, Illustrator Tracy Dockray, SeaStar Books, 2001, ISBN 9781587170744
• Peyton Amberg, Bloomsbury, 2003, ISBN 9780747561385; Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 9780312318451
• They Is Us, The Friday Project Limited, 2008, ISBN 9781906321123

Nonfiction

• Janowitz, Tama (November 12, 2007). "The Real Thing". The New York Times. http://relativechoices.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/the-real-thing/. 
• Area Code 212, Bloomsbury, 2002, ISBN 9780747558286; Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 9780312320638

External links

• "My Lunch with Tama", Random House Bold Type, 08 1999, Laura L. Buchwald
• "She'll Take Manhattan", New York Magazine, July 14, 1986
• Audio Interview with Tama Janowitz