Tama Starr is an American businesswoman and author.

She is the president of Artkraft Strauss, 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, Washington Post, Reader's Digest, Partisan Review, Reason Magazine, and elsewhere. She has published three books. She lives in New York City.

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Books

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Year Title Publisher Co-worker(s)
1991 The Natural Inferiority of Women: Outrageous Pronouncements by Misguided Males Simon & Schuster
1994 Eve's Revenge: Saints, Sinners and Stand-up Sisters on the Ultimate Extinction of Men Harcourt Brace
1998 Signs and Wonders: The Spectacular Marketing of America Doubleday Currency Edward Hayman

Lyrics

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Year Title Album Record Label
1971 Riversong Zero Time Embryo
1975 Riversong Tonto's Expanding Head Band Atlantic

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