Her books include Mothering Heights, the novels In The King's Arms[1][2] and Down Under, and a literary memoir, The Watchmaker's Daughter.
Taitz attended Barnard College, Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in English and psychology.
Taitz was admitted to Yale Law School; she took a leave to go to Oxford University, where she studied the Romantics of the 19th century.
She has also served as an advocate in the ER under the “DOVE” program at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, supporting the legal rights of victims of rape and/or domestic violence.
[4][5] The book, which advocated that parents choose their own way to raise their children,[6] was excerpted in the Post for a week, featured on The Today Show, CBS This Morning, NPR, NBC, and CNN.
The Library of Congress funded an audiobook of In The King's Arms, to be taped at the Jewish Braille Institute in New York.
The Library of Congress funded the audio recording of The Watchmaker's Daughter, taped by the author at the Jewish Braille Institute, and completed in early 2014.
A radio play, "The Day Starts in the Night," based on an episode in the book, was commissioned and broadcast on NPR.