Anita Diamant – American novelist and journalist, best known for The Red Tent, which became an international sensation. Born in Brooklyn, she built her career as a reporter and columnist, writing about culture, religion and women’s lives. Her fiction is often described as “biblical feminism,” reclaiming forgotten female voices of the Old Testament.
✨ The Red Tent was translated worldwide and became a global bestseller. 📚 Wrote for The Boston Globe, The New York Times and others. 🎓 Studied literature and creative writing at Boston University. 🖋️ Author of non-fiction works on Jewish traditions and contemporary culture. 🌍 Her books inspire countless women’s book clubs across the globe. 🎬 The Red Tent was adapted into a TV miniseries. 💡 Sees writing as a way to restore forgotten voices to the present. 🙃 Quirk: the novel was nearly self-published after rejections from publishers. 😄 Amusing: jokes that audiences sometimes mistake her for a theologian instead of a novelist.