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Anita Diamant (born June 27, 1951) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books.
Anita Diamant is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books.

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Anita Diamant

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Anita Diamant is a writer whose work includes fiction, journalism, essays, and guidebooks to contemporary Jewish life.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, she grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in comparative literature and earned a Master’s in American literature from Binghamton University in upstate New York.

In 1975, Anita moved to Boston and contributed to local magazines and newspapers (Boston Phoenix, Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, New England Monthly), reporting and commenting about everything from profiles of prominent people and stories about medical ethics, to first-person essays about everything from politics to popular culture to pet ownership. Her work also appeared in national publications, including McCalls, Ms., Parenting, Real Simple, and The Wall Street Journal.

Her first book, The New Jewish Wedding ( 1985) explained traditional practice and reported on contemporary practices. Five guidebooks to Jewish life and lifecycle even

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Anita Diamant

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New York City, The United States

Website

http://www.anitadiamant.com

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Fiction, Religion, Nonfiction

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June 2010

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Anita Diamant is the author of thirteen books -- including THE RED TENT. Based on the biblical story of Dinah, THE RED TENT became a word-of-mouth bestseller in the US and around the world, where it has been published in more than 25 countries.

Her new book, a work of nonfiction. PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE. A NEW CHAPTER IN THE FIGHT FOR MENSTRUAL JUSTICE will be published in May 2021., As different as they are, this book returns to some of the themes of THE RED TENT -- including the meaning and experience of menstruation.

Anita has written four other novels: GOOD HARBOR, THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN, DAY AFTER NIGHT, and THE BOSTON GIRL. She is also the author of six non-fiction guides to contemporary Jewish life, which have become classic referenAnita Diamant is the author of thirteen books -- including THE RED TENT. Based on the biblical story of Dinah, THE RED TENT bec

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Anita Diamant Biography

Anita Diamant is a prize-winning journalist whose work has appeared regularly in the Boston Globe Magazine and Parenting magazine.

She is the author of The Red Tent, Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown and Day After Night. She has alos written on contemporary Jewish practice: Choosing a Jewish Life, The New Jewish Baby Book, The New Jewish Wedding, Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jewand Living a Jewish Life (with H. Cooper).

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 at Boulder and transferred to Washington University in St. Louis 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.

She is the founding president Mayyim Hayyim, a reinvention of the ancient Jewish tradition of mikveh, ritual immersion in water.

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