Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman (born 1963) is an American author who was the dance critic for the Washington Post. She was the recipient of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Her most recent work, The Art of Grace, was published by W.W. Norton and Company in fall of 2015.

Biography Kaufman was born in Austin, Texas, and was raised in Washington DC.

Kaufman studied dance until she gave it up in graduate school. In the 1990s, Kaufman and her husband moved to Munich, Germany, where she worked as a translator and author of freelance English-language cultural and journalism pieces. While writing for the Post, she broke the story that many of the works of Martha Graham were in the public domain.