Sara Mansfield Taber




Advance Praise for Sara Taber's forthcoming memoir...
The sensory and emotional detail of this memoir is as delicately wrought as bone china, yet saved from fragility by Sara Taber’s uncompromising journey deeper and deeper inward with every page...a beautiful, mysterious, and unexpectedly suspenseful story of the struggle to find a place in the world.

-William O’Sullivan, features editor, The Washingtonian Magazine


Sara Mansfield Taber has worked magic with this intoxicating memoir of her exotic childhood. With a child’s innocence and sensitivity, Sara composes her family’s haunting story, stroke by exquisitely beautiful stroke. This vibrant family portrait of love and heart-ache also reveals much about America—our passion, confusion, contradictions, and especially, the tragedy we bring upon the world despite our very best intentions.

-Mary Stucky,National Public Radio







Sara Mansfield Taber
Writer . Teacher . Editor


Sara Mansfield Taber is a writer of creative nonfiction: essay, memoir, and literary journalism. A long-time teacher, she offers writing classes in the Washington D.C. area and around the country. Sara Taber is also an experienced editor. She provides writers with a range of services, from basic editing, to book shaping and book proposal design. She also offers structure and coaching to help writers get their work done.

Please click on the toolbar to learn more about Sara Taber's writing, teaching, and editing. Also note the advice page, with book recommendations for writers and other tips on the writer's craft.







Selected Works

Essay
"Longing for America: Notes from a Traveling Childhood"
"An eloquent essay." -New York Times
Literary Journalism
BREAD OF THREE RIVERS: THE STORY OF A FRENCH LOAF
"...One of the most compelling, knowledgeable, and graceful books about the French soul that has ever been written by an American." -Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
DUSK ON THE CAMPO: A JOURNEY IN PATAGONIA
"The stories remain...etched in the reader's mind, etched as if by the harsh wind of Patagonia itself. Extraordinarily fine writing." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Memoir
"Rainlight"
"A poignant chronicle of the diaspora of the heart--and the heart's quest and longing for that universal place called home." Wall Street Journal



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