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Sonia Taitz

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Sonia Taitz is a playwright, essayist, and author of THE WATCHMAKER’S DAUGHTER, a memoir described by PEOPLE magazine as “funny and heartwrenching.”

The book has been recommended by VANITY FAIR, KIRKUS, The American Library Association (which nominated it for the Sophie Brody Medal), and READER’S DIGEST, which put it on its “Can’t-Miss” List. Author/critic James Wolcott described the book as having “the beauty of a psalm,” adding that it should be immortalized on film by Steven Spielberg; CNN’s Mark Whitaker said that “Sonia Taitz writes with an artist’s eye and a poet’s voice,” and Academy Award, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Patrick Shanley (DOUBT, MOONSTRUCK) proclaimed: “Sonia Taitz has a good heart and an unmortgaged soul. Follo...more


It�s listed among the seven deadly sins, but envy seems to be the least fun one. After all, you profit temporarily from lust, gluttony, and sloth, to name a few of the good vices, but what is the draw of envy? Why do we submit to it, even indulge in and obsess about it, knowing, as we do, that it is painful and pointless?

Envy, like the tango, takes two. There is one who has, or seems to have, s... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.67 · 146 ratings · 49 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
The Watchmaker's Daughter: ...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
In the King's Arms: A Novel
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011
In the King's Arms
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011

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