Dara Horn is an award-winning American novelist, essayist, and scholar. She is the author of five novels, including the National Jewish Book Award-winning The World to Come, and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Eternal Life. Horn has also written numerous essays and articles for publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She is a professor of literature at Harvard University and a visiting professor at Princeton University. Horn is a passionate advocate for Jewish culture and literature, and her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Jewish Book Award.