Name Tama Janowitz Role Novelist | Movies Slaves of New York | |
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Parents Phyllis Janowitz, Julian Janowitz Education Barnard College, Columbia University Books Slaves of New York, Peyton Amberg, A Certain Age: A Novel, A Cannibal in Manhattan, The male cross‑dresser support g Similar People James Ivory, Maxi Priest, Stanley Tucci, Anthony LaPaglia, Ismail Merchant | ||
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Tama Janowitz (born April 12, 1957 San Francisco, California) 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.
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- Life
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Tama janowitz kat kinsman scream a memoir of glamour and dysfunction
Life
Her parents, a psychiatrist father, Julian Janowitz, and literature professor (Cornell University) mother, Phyllis Janowitz, divorced when she was ten. She and her brother David grew up with her mother in Massachusetts. and for two years in the late 1960s, in Israel.
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 been an icon of literary success to at least one generation of writers. She has published seven novels, one collection of stories and one work of non-fiction. She left Manhattan to live in Brooklyn with her British husband and art-gallery owner, Tim Hunt, and their daughter. She now lives near Ithaca, New York.
Her memoir, Scream: A Memoir of Glamour and Dysfunction, was published in August 2016 to widespread interest and reviews both positive and negative. Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Ada Calhoun noted Janowitz's deadpan, almost careless way of looking at her own life and the glamor of hanging out with Andy Warhol and dancing at Studio 54. The review also addressed the concern with material goods and financial security that drives many of Janowitz's novels and led her to appear in ads for Amaretto and other products. Wrote Calhoun, "This memoir — which spans her childhood (partly spent in 1968 Israel, where her family was booted from a hotel for not paying), her adventuresome youth (she had a fling with a 63-year-old Lawrence Durrell when she was 19), her career struggles and successes, and her more recent life as caretaker to her dying mother — shows that she comes by her obsession with money honestly."
In her fifties, Janowitz discovered a love of horseback riding, as described in her memoir.