Norton in January 2006, received the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the 2007 Harold U. Her second novel, The World to Come, also published by W. Norton when she was 25, received a 2003 National Jewish Book Award, the 2002 Edward Lewis Wallant Award. Horn's first novel, In the Image, published by W. She has also been a contributor to the New York Times and The Atlantic. Horn served as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Yeshiva University during the 2019–2020 academic year. She held the Weinstock visiting professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard, teaching Yiddish and Hebrew literature. She taught classes in Jewish literature and Israeli history at Sarah Lawrence College and the City University of New York. She finished her master's degree in Hebrew literature at Cambridge University. in comparative literature in Hebrew and Yiddish in 2006, both from Harvard University. She received her BA in comparative literature, summa cum laude, in 1999 and her Ph.D. When Horn was 14, she won a trip to Poland and Israel in a quiz competition about Israeli history, and then wrote an essay about her trip for Hadassah Magazine that was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 1993. The family travelled internationally during her childhood, and her parents encouraged Horn and her siblings to write journals about their trips. Her mother, Susan, was an English teacher with a Ph.D in Jewish studies. She attended Millburn High School and was co-captain of the Quiz Bowl team. Horn was born in 1977 and grew up in Short Hills, New Jersey with three siblings. She won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in 2002, the National Jewish Book Award in 20, and the Harold U.

She has written five novels and in 2021, released a nonfiction essay collection titled People Love Dead Jews, which was a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in nonfiction. Dara Horn (born 1977) is a Jewish American novelist, essayist, and professor of literature.

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