Best-selling memoirist and novelist
Dani Shapiro's books include the memoirs
Hourglass,
Still Writing,
Devotion, and
Slow Motion, and five novels including
Black & White and
Family History. Her work spans diverse subjects from her tumultuous upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community and the tragic death of her father to her explorations of spirituality and the nature of our deepest relationships. Dani's
New York Times best-selling memoir,
Inheritance, was recently published by Knopf.
Dani's essays and journalistic pieces have appeared in numerous publications including the
New Yorker, Salon,
n+1,
Tin House, and
Vogue, and have been widely anthologized. She contributes regularly to the
New York Times Book Review and has been broadcast on
This American Life.
Along with teaching writing workshops around the world, Dani has taught at Columbia and New York University, and is the cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy.
In February of 2019, Dani launched an original podcast,
Family Secrets, in collaboration with iHeartMedia. The podcast features stories from guests who, like Dani, have uncovered life-altering and long-hidden secrets from their families' past.
