Harvey myerson dani shapiro biography

          Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney--her best friend's stepfather..

          Dani Shapiro

          American writer (born 1962)

          Dani Shapiro

          Shapiro at the 2018 Texas Book Festival

          BornDaneile Shapiro
          (1962-04-10) April 10, 1962 (age 62)
          New York City
          OccupationWriter

          Dani Shapiro (born April 10, 1962) is an American writer, the author of six novels including Family History (2003), Black & White (2007) and most recently Signal Fires (2022)[1] and the best-selling memoirsSlow Motion (1998), Devotion (2010), Hourglass (2017), and Inheritance (2019).[2] She has also written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and Elle.[3] In February 2019, she created an original podcast on iHeartRadio called Family Secrets.[4]

          Early life and education

          Shapiro was born Daneile Shapiro[5] on April 10, 1962, in New York City.[6] She is the daughter of Paul Shapiro, from an Orthodox Jewish family (who, she later learned through a recrea