Credit Rose Callahan

Tara Isabella Burton's debut novel, 2018's Social Creature, was named a "book of the year" by The New York Times, New York's Vulture, and The Guardian.  Her second novel, The World Cannot Give, was published by Simon & Schuster in March 2022.

Her first nonfiction book, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World (2020), was praised by Tim Shriver as "the most thoughtful analysis of our current spiritual crisis anywhere." Her fourth book, a history of self-creation, Self-Made: Curating Our Image from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, to be published by Public Affairs in June 2023.

Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, ​Granta, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and more. She also co-writes the Substack newsletter "Line of Beauty" with her husband, Dhananjay Jagannathan.

​Tara received a doctorate in theology from Oxford in 2017.

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Contact: ​Tara is represented by Emma Parry (US) & Rebecca Carter (UK) at Janklow & Nesbit Associates.