In 1953, nine years before I was born, my father fell in love with a young woman named Dorothy Gribetz. She was a beautiful Orthodox Jewish girl who was, at twenty-seven, startlingly old to still be single in the moneyed religious urban world of my father . . .
Liese Mayer and Sally Kim at Little, Brown won, at auction, North American rights to Dani’s new memoir Kaleidoscope, about “a profound and sudden upheaval in her late middle age,” and an untitled novel, from Margaret Riley King at WME, for release in fall 2027.
Dani Shapiro wins her second National Jewish Book Award, and her first JJ Greenberg Memorial Award for Fiction, for Signal Fires.
Signal Fires named one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2022 and Must Read Books of 2022
Dani Shapiro Shares Excerpt From Her Upcoming Novel Signal Fires, Her ‘Most Personal Book’ Yet
Entertainment Weekly announces Dani’s forthcoming novel – the first in 15 years! – Signal Fires. Knopf will publish in fall 2022.
The paperback edition of Inheritance is an LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and San Francisco Chronicle, and National Indie bestseller!
Dani’s podcast, “Family Secrets” launched into the top 10 of all podcasts on Apple! The podcast has over 33 million downloads, and its ninth season launched on November 9, 2023. Its tenth season is currently in production.
Inheritance has won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award!
Wired Magazine names Inheritance as one of 2019’s top Science books!
Inheritance named a best book of 2019 by Vanity Fair!
Inheritance will be adapted for film by Killer Films!
The New Yorker includes Inheritance in their summer reading round up!
The Today Show features Inheritance in their “20 Beach Reads You Won’t Want to Put Down” segment.
Inheritance debuted on The New York Times Best Seller List at #11!
Daunt Books in the UK has won an auction to publish Inheritance!
Thanks to everyone who watched Dani on Super Soul Sunday
