Tama Starr is an American businesswoman and author.
She is the president of
Artkraft Strauss
Artkraft Strauss is a sign design and consulting company headquartered in Manhattan, New York. Throughout the 20th century, the company was the preeminent designer and creator of Times Square's iconic signs and displays. These included the “s ...
, located in Manhattan. Throughout the twentieth century, the company was the preeminent designer and creator of Times Square's signs and displays, and was also responsible for the annual midnight ball-lowering that signaled the arrival of the new year.
Starr is also known as a satirist and social commentator. Her work has appeared in the ''
Wall Street Journal
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'', ''
Washington Post
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'', ''
Reader's Digest
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'', ''Partisan Review'', ''
Reason
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'' Magazine, and elsewhere. She has published three books. She lives in
New York City
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.
Works
Books
Lyrics
Selected articles
The 7.63 Percent Solution: A small contractor learns affirmative action arithmetic - Reason MagazineConfessions of a "Woman-Owned Business" Owner: How I learned to love quotas - Reason MagazineApril Frauds: Three manufactured holidays make fools of us all - Reason Magazine (Earth Day, Secretary's Day, Take Your Daughter to Work Day)The Sky Keeps Falling! - Wall Street Journal (Review of Max Page, ''The City's End'')
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American non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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