Reading and Celebration of Sara M. Taber

The Writer’s Center welcomes students, colleagues, and friends for a celebration of former Writer’s Center instructor, Sara M. Taber, with a reading and reception.

In lieu of flowers, the Memoir Club suggests donations be made to The Writer’s Center during or in advance to the celebration.

Please feel free to bring something to share and read aloud. There will be an open mic. The event will also be livestreamed for anyone who cannot attend.

RSVP by emailing fwhite@gmail.com

Sara Taber, Silver Springs, MD, was born in Japan and grew up mostly in Europe and Asia. Her family moved frequently, following her father as an undercover US intelligence officer.

A psychology major at Carleton, she earned a graduate degree in social work (University of Washington) and doctorate in human development (Harvard). After a few years on the U of MN social-work faculty, she and her husband, Peter Thomas ’77, moved to the Washington, DC, area, where she pursued writing and teaching, and a small psychotherapy practice.

Sara wrote several books, including two memoirs, Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy’s Daughter, and Black Water and Tulips: My Mother, the Spy’s Wife, a Mother-Daughter Memoir. She was generous in her support of other writers. In the last several years of her life, she worked with young Afghan women. In addition to Peter, she is survived by daughter Maud, son Forrest and a grandson.