Ellen Feldman

Ellen Feldman is an American writer. She was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, and her novel Scottsboro was shortlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction.

Early life and education

Feldman was born in 1941. She grew up in New Jersey and attended Bryn Mawr College, and graduated with B.A. and an M.A. in modern history. She also worked for a publishing firm in New York and continued with graduate studies at Columbia University.

Personal life

Feldman currently lives in New York City and East Hampton, New York.

Works

A.K.A. Katherine Walden (1982)

Conjugal Rites (1986)

Looking for Love (1990)

Too Close for Comfort (1994)

Rearview Mirror (1995)

God Bless the Child (1998)

Lucy (2003)

The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank (2005)

Scottsboro (2008)

Next to Love (2011)

The Unwitting (2014)

She has also written under the pseudonyms Amanda Russell and Elizabeth Villars.

Lucy

Lucy (2003), was about Franklin Roosevelt's love for Lucy Mercer, who was the social secretary of Eleanor Roosevelt, his wife.

Scottsboro

Scottsboro was a 2009 novel about the Scottsboro Boys, nine black youths controversially accused of rape. Lionel Shriver in The Telegraph (UK) found it "a pleasure to read" despite the horrors it described. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2009.

Next to Love

Her novel Next to Love (2011), tells the story of three Massachusetts women from the 1940s to 1960s. It was inspired by the true story of the Bedford Boys, a group of men from around Bedford, Virginia, many of whom were killed in the first few minutes of the D-Day landings.