Dani Shapiro: Discovering extraordinary wisdom in fiction, memoir, and everyday life

TSTB pays a return visit to the remarkable Dani Shapiro -- author of eleven books, as well as host and creator of the hit podcast Family Secrets. Her most recent novel, Signal Fires, was named a best book of 2022 by Time Magazine, Washington Post, Amazon, and others, and is a national bestseller. The paperback edition of Signal Fires will publish in October, and Dani is currently working on a television adaptation of the book.

Shapiro is also the author of a series of moving, insightful memoirs – most recently Inheritance, which became an instant New York Times best seller and was named a best book of 2019 by Vanity Fair, Wired, and others. Both Signal Fires and Inheritance were winners of the National Jewish Book Award. 

Dani’s book on the process and craft of writing, Still Writing, has just been reissued on the occasion of its tenth anniversary.

Author photo: Beowulf Sheehan

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