Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman | |
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Waldman in 2009 | |
| Native name | איילת ולדמן |
| Born | December 11, 1964 Jerusalem |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Israeli-American |
| Education | Wesleyan University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
| Notable works | Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Bad Mother: A Chronicle... |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | |
| ayeletwaldman | |
Ayelet Waldman (Hebrew: איילת ולדמן; born December 11, 1964) is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist. She has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and four other novels. She has also written autobiographical essays about motherhood. Waldman spent three years working as a federal public defender and her fiction draws on her experience as a lawyer.