Honora Talbott

Sara Sligar (rhymes with spy car) is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. Her first novel, Take Me Apart (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Phil. in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge. Her second novel, Vantage Point (also MCD/FSG), was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and won the 2026 Maine Literary Award for Best Crime Fiction.

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