Ayelet Waldman
Author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
About the Author
Ayelet Waldman was born on December 11, 1964. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1986 and from Harvard Law School in 1991. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked at a New York law firm and as a federal public defender in California. She is the author of the Mommy-Track Mysteries show more series, Daughter's Keeper, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Red Hook Road. In her essay Motherlove, which was published in Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race and Themselves, Waldman admitted that she loves her husband more than her children. Her book Bad Mother was written as a result of the negative reaction to her essay. She and Michael Chabon are co-editors of, Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Ayelet Waldman
A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life (2017) 238 copies, 15 reviews
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Editor — 201 copies, 4 reviews
Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons (2011) — Editor — 121 copies, 2 reviews
Minnow {Short Story} 2 copies
I 1 copy
Associated Works
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men (2007) — Contributor — 103 copies, 2 reviews
Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools (2015) — Foreword, some editions — 22 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1964-12-11
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Jerusalem, Israel
- Places of residence
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
New Jersey, USA
Berkeley, California, USA - Education
- Harvard University(JD)
Wesleyan University (AB) - Occupations
- federal public defender
law professor
novelist - Relationships
- Chabon, Michael (spouse)
- Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley
- Short biography
- Ayelet Waldman and her husband, novelist Michael Chabon, live with their four children in Berkeley, California.
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- Works
- 21
- Also by
- 8
- Members
- 4,049
- Popularity
- #6,217
- Rating
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- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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- Languages
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