Literary Modiin - November 2024 Author Event

About the authors:

Helen Schary Motro is an American writer and attorney whose award-winning writing spans the gamut of opinion journalism in the world’s leading press, including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Haaretz, and Newsweek. Motro is recipient of the Common Ground Award for Journalism in the Middle East. She taught law at Tel Aviv University and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post. She is author of the non-fiction Maneuvering Between the Headlines (Other Press), and the new collection of short fiction The Right to Happiness, After All they Went Through (Amsterdam Publishers).  Her short stories, poetry, and essays appear in anthologies and magazines. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the New York University School of Law. Motro lives in Israel with her family.

Sarah Seltzer is the executive editor of Lilith Magazine and a widely-published journalist. Her debut novel, folk-rock family saga The Singer Sisters, arrived on shelves this summer and was a USA Today bestseller.  Adelle Waldman called The Singer Sisters “superb,” Elisa Albert said it was “expertly imagined” and Elizabeth Graver was “sad to reach the final page.”

Talia Carner is the New York-based award-winning author of six novels and numerous articles. Her historical and psychological suspense novels bring to the forefront indignities and human dramas long ignored. Inspired by the rescue of Jewish orphans post WWII and weaving it into Israel’s navy 1969 story of ingenuity and daring, THE BOY WITH THE STAR TATTOO  (HarperCollins, January 2024) is a novel hailed by Nelson DeMille as “Historical fiction doesn’t get better than this book.”