A Conversation with Best-selling Author Anita Diamant

Best-selling author Anita Diamant, who earned a master's degree in English from Binghamton in 1975, returned to campus for the first time since she graduated.

Bat-Ami Bar On, professor of philosophy and women's studies, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and chair of the Judaic Studies Department, interviewed Diamant on stage April 7, in the Osterhout Concert Theater. Their discussion centered on Diamant's first novel, The Red Tent, as well as her latest book, Day After Night, a work of historical fiction that focuses on a detention camp run by the British in Palestine immediately after World War II.

Diamant, who is also an accomplished journalist and author of several books of non-fiction, said she wrote The Red Tent to give herself a "safe challenge." She considered it a "knitting project," something she did while also writing another book.

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