Sara Mansfield Taber

Sara Mansfield Taber is the author, most recently, of Black Water and Tulips: My Mother, the Spy's Wife and Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy’s Daughter. A writer and psychologist, she is also the author of  two books of literary journalism.

Wartime Echoes

Shakespeare and the news from Ukraine

By Sara Mansfield Taber | Tuesday March 8, 2022

A Desperate Escape

The events in Kabul recall terrible scenes in The Aeneid

By Sara Mansfield Taber | Saturday September 18, 2021

“I Will Die a Russian”

A marriage of convenience that yielded an intelligence bonanza

By Sara Mansfield Taber | Monday June 5, 2017

Saigon Summer

A spy’s daughter remembers the haunting unreality of embassy life in South Vietnam before the fall

By Sara Mansfield Taber | Monday June 8, 2015

Wartime Echoes

By Sara Mansfield Taber | Tuesday March 8, 2022

A Desperate Escape

By Sara Mansfield Taber | Saturday September 18, 2021

Saigon Summer

By Sara Mansfield Taber | Monday June 8, 2015

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