Sara Mansfield Taber
Sara was awarded a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for 2014 www.midatlanticarts.org Born Under an Assumed Name was selected as a finalist for the 2012 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award.
Sara's Hokkaido talk on growing up as a spy's daughter was featured in a Japanese newspaper on April 16th.
Sara Taber's Interview on The Diane Rehm Show, March 13, 2012
I was honored to have an interview with Diane Rehm on The Diane Rehm Show. Listen in! Press Kit for Born Under an Assumed Name (338.1KB)
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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. To subscribe to Sara Taber's newsletter, click on the Advice page. |
BORN UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy's Daughter by Sara Mansfield TaberBook TrailerGrowing up in a string of different countries can be tough as well as exotic. Sara Mansfield Taber found the experience even more unsettling because she was the daughter of a covert CIA agent. In this moving, lyrical memoir, Taber captures the painful journey as she ― and her adored father ― struggle to understand who they are and what it means to be an American.
Advance Praise for BORN UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME: THE MEMOIR OF A COLD WAR SPY'S DAUGHTER... 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 |
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