Judith Tarr, 1955 - Writer Judith Tarr was born in 1955 in Maine. She received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Medieval studies from Yale. She also received an M.A. in Classics from Cambridge University and a B.A. in Latin and English from Mount Holyoke. Some of the titles written by Tarr include "The Golden Horn" (1985), "The Hound and the Falcon" (1986), "Avaryan Rising" (1988), "Alamut" (1989), "The Daggar and the Cross" (1991), "The Lord of Two Lands" (1993), "Pillar of Fire" (1995) and the juvenile book "His Majesty's Elephant."