Ellen feldman biography

Read-Alikes

All the books below are recommended as read-alikes for Ellen Feldman but some maybe more relevant to you than others depending on which books by the author you have read and enjoyed. So look for the suggested read-alikes by title linked on the right.
How we choose readalikes

• Maggie O'Farrell

  Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), After You'd Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of... (more)

• Elyse Singleton

  Elyse Singleton is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications in the United States, Canada, England and New Zealand including The Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Essence, the ... (more)

We recommend 3 similar authors

View all 3 Read-Alikes

Membership Advantages

• Reviews
• "Beyond the Book" article
  •

  Ellen Feldman

  Ellen Feldman, a 2009 Guggenheim fellow, is the author of The Living and the Lost (winner of Long Island Reads award), Paris Never Leaves You (translated into thirteen languages), Terrible Virtue (optioned by Black Bicycle for a feature film), The Unwitting, Next to Love, Scottsboro (shortlisted for the Orange Prize), The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank (a New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice"), and Lucy. Her most recent novel, The Trouble with You, will be published in February, 2024.

  Ellen has lectured extensively around the country and in Germany and England, and enjoys talking to book groups in person or via the web.

  She grew up in northern New Jersey and attended Bryn Mawr College, from which she holds a B.A. and an M.A. in modern history. After further graduate studies at Columbia University, she worked for a New York publishing house.

  Ellen lives in New York City and East Hampton, New York, with her husband and a terrier named Charlie.

  Follow Ellen on Facebook

  •

  Ellen Feldman

  American novelist

  Ellen Feldman
  Born	1941 (age 83–84)
  Pen name	Amanda Russell
  Occupation	Writer
  Nationality	American
  Education	Bryn Mawr College (BA, MA)

  Ellen Feldman (born 1941) is an American writer. 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 City and continued with graduate studies at Columbia University.^[1][2]

  Feldman currently lives in New York City and East Hampton, New York.^[2]

  Works

  She has also written under the pseudonym Amanda Russell.^[3]

  Lucy

  Lucy (2003), was about Franklin Roosevelt's love for Lucy Mercer, who was the social secretary of Eleanor Roosevelt, his wife.^[1]

  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.^[5] It wa