Anita Diamant


Anita Diamant is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books. She has published five novels, the most recent of which is The Boston Girl, a New York Times best seller. She is best known for her 1997 novel The Red Tent, which eventually became a best seller and book club favorite. She has also written six guides to contemporary Jewish practice, including The New Jewish Wedding, Living a Jewish Life, and The New Jewish Baby Book, as well as a collection of personal essays, Pitching My Tent.

Early life and education

Diamant spent her early childhood in Newark, New Jersey, and moved to Denver, Colorado, when she was 12 years old. She attended the University of Colorado Boulder and transferred to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature in 1973. She then went on to receive a master's degree in English from Binghamton University in 1975.

Career

Diamant started her writing career in 1975 as a freelance journalist. Her articles have been published in the Boston Globe magazine, Parenting magazine, New England Monthly, Yankee, Self, Parents, McCall's, and Ms.
She branched out into books with the release of The New Jewish Wedding, published in 1985, and has since published five other books about contemporary Jewish practice. Her debut as a fiction writer came in 1997 with The Red Tent, followed by the novels, Good Harbor and The Last Days of Dogtown. The latter is an account of life in a dying Cape Ann, Massachusetts village, Dogtown, in the early 19th century.
Her next novel, Day After Night, tells the stories of four women survivors of the Holocaust who, in the period following the end of the war and before the founding of the State of Israel, find themselves detained in the Atlit detention center, just south of Haifa, in the British Mandate of Palestine.
In 2014 she published the novel The Boston Girl, a coming-of-age story about an immigrant girl in the early 20th century.

Personal life

Diamant is the founding president of Mayyim Hayyim: Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center, a community-based ritual bath in Newton, Massachusetts.
She lives in Newton, Massachusetts, is married, and has one daughter.

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