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| birth_place = [[San Francisco, California]], U.S.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/tama_janowitz_born_1956_5881553|title=Tama Janowitz, Born 04/12/1956 in California &#124; CaliforniaBirthIndex.org|website=www.californiabirthindex.org|accessdate=April 13, 2021}}</ref>

'''Tama Janowitz''' (born April 12, 19571956) is an American [[novelist]] and a short story writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4464/Janowitz-Tama.html|title=Tama Janowitz Biography|author=|date=|website=biography.jrank.org|accessdate=January 20, 2019}}</ref> She is often referenced as one of the main "[[Brat Pack (literary)|"brat pack"]]" authors, along with [[Bret Easton Ellis]], and [[Jay McInerney]].<ref name=nty>{{cite web|last=Wyatt|first=Edward|title=Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/arts/07wyat.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|work=New York Times|date=August 7, 2005}}</ref> Her novel-in-stories ''[[Slaves of New York (short story)|Slaves of New York]]'' (1986) was adapted into the [[Slaves of New York|movie of the same name]] in 1989.

==Life and career==

Her parents, [[psychiatrist]] Julian Janowitz, and Phyllis Janowitz (née Winer),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167107318/phyllis-janowitz|title=Phyllis Winer Janowitz (1930-2014) - Find A Grave...|website=www.findagrave.com|accessdate=April 13, 2021}}</ref>, a literature professor at [[Cornell University]], divorced when she was ten. She and her brother David grew up with her mother in [[Massachusetts]].,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0OcCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=Phyllis+Janowitz&sourcepg=bl&ots=ChvoyWlX8C&sig=ph3a9vDE545cjHriqXmkrmXx39o&hl=en&ei=JoddTNKgIYX7lwf2-PyZCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCQQ6AEwBTgU#v=onepage&q=Phyllis%20Janowitz&f=falsePA39 "She'll Take Manhattan"], ''New York Magazine'', July 14, 1986</ref> and, for two years in the late 1960s, in [[Israel]].<ref name="Cornell Obit">{{cite web|last1=Fulton|first1=Alice|title=Phyllis Janowitz|url=https://blogs.cornell.edu/deanoffaculty/files/2016/01/JANOWITZ-Phyllis-2fx5wkk.pdf|website=blogs.cornell.edu|publisher=Cornell University|accessdate=September 5, 2016}}</ref>

Janowitz graduated from [[Barnard College]] with a B.A. in 1977 and from [[Hollins College]] with an M.A. in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4464/Janowitz-Tama.html |title=Tama Janowitz Biography |publisher=Biography.jrank.org cn|date= |accessdate=August 7, 20102022}}</ref> In 1985 she received an M.F.A from the [[Columbia University School of the Arts]].

Upon settling in [[New York City]], Janowitz started writing about life there, socializingbecoming withwell-known in [[Andy WarholManhattan]] literary and social circles.<ref name="Random House - author profile">{{cite web|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/|title=Penguin Random House|author=|date=|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref> andShe becomingbegan wellsocializing knownwith inpop artist [[ManhattanAndy Warhol]] literarythrough andher socialrelationship circleswith artist [[Ronnie Cutrone]].<ref>{{Cite Herbook 1986|last=Warhol |first=Andy |url= |title=The Andy Warhol Diaries |last2=Hackett |first2=Pat |date=1989 |publisher=Warner Books |others= |isbn=978-0-446-51426-2 |location=New York |pages=627 |postscript=Entry date: January 12, 1985}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Trebay |first=Guy |date=2013-08-02 |title=Ronnie Cutrone, a Man of Another, Cooler City |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/fashion/ronnie-cutrone-a-man-of-another-cooler-city.html |access-date=2024-05-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Janowitz's collection of [[short story|short stories]], ''[[Slaves of New York (short story)|Slaves of New York]]'', brought her wider fame in 1986.<ref name="Random House - author profile"/> <ref> "Current Biography Yearbook" is about the 1989 year, Tama Janowitz's biography is on page 278. </ref> ''Publishers Weekly'' described the book as seven stories featuring a woman named Eleanor, "a diffident young woman who gains entree to the arty milieu of lower Manhattan, which seems to combine elements of Oz and Never-Never-Land with Dante's Inferno."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-671-63678-4|website=www.publishersweekly.com|access-date=August 24, 2019|title=Fiction Book Review: Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz, Author Washington Square Press $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63678-4}}</ref> ''SlavesWarhol ofmentioned in his diary that the characters Eleanor and Stash in the stories are based on Janowitz and Cutrone.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Warhol |first=Andy |url= |title=The Andy Warhol diaries |last2=Hackett |first2=Pat |date=1989 |publisher=Warner Books |others= |isbn=978-0-446-51426-2 |location=New York'' |pages=685 |postscript=Entry date: October 15, 1985}}</ref> The book was adapted into athe 1989 film ''[[Slaves of New York]]'', which was directed by [[James Ivory (director)|James Ivory]] and starring [[Bernadette Peters]]. Janowitz wrote the screenplay and also appeared, playing Peters' friend.

Janowitz has published seven novels, one collection of stories and one work of nonfiction. She left Manhattan to live in [[Brooklyn]] with her British husband and art-gallery owner, Tim Hunt,<ref name="linkedin">{{cite web|last1=Hunt|first1=Timothy|title=Timothy Hunt|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-hunt-577311a8|website=linkedln.com|publisher=Linkedin|access-date=September 5, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Vimeo">{{cite web|last1=|title=Tama Janowitz, Writer, Slaves of New York & Tim Hunt, Andy Warhol Foundation|url=https://vimeo.com/55997108|website=vimeo.com|publisher=Vimeo, Inc.|access-date=September 5, 2016|ref=}}</ref> and their daughter.<ref>{{cite web|last=Grigoriadis |first=Vanessa |url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/features/389/ |title=Tama Janowitz, Unchained |publisher=Nymag.com |date=August 9, 1999 |accessdate=August 7, 2010}}</ref> She now lives near [[Ithaca, New York]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/148205/tama-janowitz?all=1|title=Something Really Bad Is Always Happening to Former Literary 'It Girl' Tama Janowitz|author=Batya Ungar-Sargon|date=October 10, 2013|work=Tablet Magazine}}</ref>

* 1982 National Endowment award <ref>{{cite web|url=http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4464/Janowitz-Tama.html#ixzz0vwJn2Noc |title=Tama Janowitz Biography |publisher=Biography.jrank.org cn|date= |accessdate=August 7, 20102022}}</ref>

==FictionPublications==

*''[[The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group]]'', Crown Publishers, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0-517-58698-3}}; Simon and Schuster, 1994, {{ISBN|978-0-671-87150-5}}

*''[[Peyton Amberg]]'', Bloomsbury, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-6138-5}}; Macmillan, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-312-31845-1}}

===Nonfiction===

*[https://books.google.com/books?id=_v-PrsA5ekcC&printsec=frontcover&dqq=Tama+Janowitz&hl=en&ei=c5BdTL2fFMb_lgeO7riTCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Area Code 212''], Bloomsbury, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-5828-6}}; Macmillan, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-312-32063-8}}

*[https://books.google.com/books?id=0OcCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=Phyllis+Janowitz&sourcepg=bl&ots=ChvoyWlX8C&sig=ph3a9vDE545cjHriqXmkrmXx39o&hl=en&ei=JoddTNKgIYX7lwf2-PyZCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCQQ6AEwBTgU#v=onepage&q=Phyllis%20Janowitz&f=falsePA39 "She'll Take Manhattan"], ''New York Magazine'', July 14, 1986

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