Tama Janowitz (born April 12, 1957) is an American novelist and short story writer, most commonly associated with the Brat Pack.
Born in San Francisco to a psychiatrist father and literature professor mother who divorced when she was ten, Janowitz moved to the East coast in her younger years and started writing about life in New York, where she had settled down. She socialized with Andy Warhol, and was a celebrity in certain New York circles. It was a collection of short stories, Slaves of New York (1986) that shot her to fame and made her a well known society figure. Slaves was also turned into a movie in 1989.
So far, Janowitz has published seven novels. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tim Hunt, and their adopted daughter.
Novels
American Dad (1981)
Slaves of New York (1986)
A Cannibal in Manhattan (1987)
The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group (1991)
By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee (1996)
A Certain Age (1999)
Peyton Amberg (2003)
Nonfiction
Area Code 212 (2002)
