Ellen Pall

ELLEN PALL is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Among the Ginzburgs , Back East , and Corpse de Ballet . As a freelance journalist, she has written for the New Yorker and contributed many features about the arts to the New York Times . Her personal essay, "To Recover Mother," appeared recently in the New York Review of Books. Ellen has served on the board of PEN America Center, taught writing at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and was a Shane Stevens Fellow at Bread Loaf...See more

ELLEN PALL is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Among the Ginzburgs , Back East , and Corpse de Ballet . As a freelance journalist, she has written for the New Yorker and contributed many features about the arts to the New York Times . Her personal essay, "To Recover Mother," appeared recently in the New York Review of Books. Ellen has served on the board of PEN America Center, taught writing at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and was a Shane Stevens Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Ellen grew up on Long Island, went to college at U.C. Santa Barbara, then moved to Los Angeles. There, she wrote eight Regency Romances under the pen name Fiona Hill. (Not to be confused with the former U.S. National Security Council official Fiona Hill. Very different person.) She and her husband currently divide their time between New York and Los Angeles. More at ... See less