Ayelet Waldman

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Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon (2009)

Ayelet Waldman (born December 11, 1964 in Jerusalem ) is an American-Israeli writer.

Life

Ayelet Waldman's grandparents emigrated from the Russian Empire to North America at the beginning of the 20th century. Her father and mother lived in Israel for a time where they met and married. After the Six Day War in 1967, the family moved to Montreal , Canada , from there to Ridgewood , New Jersey , where Waldman graduated from high school. She studied psychology and political science at Wesleyan University and in Israel. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 with a JD .

She worked as a lawyer in New York and as a criminal defense attorney in California. She has lived with the writer Michael Chabon since 1992 , they have four children and live in Berkeley , California. Waldman tries to reconcile marriage, children and work and relies on Chabon's involvement in family work.

Between 1997 and 2003 she taught at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley . During this time she began to write fiction, initially crime novels about Juliet Applebaum, who is short, red-haired and Jewish, has a husband who writes novels at night while she hunts criminals in her free time.

In 2005 she wrote an essay for the New York Times that revolves around the theme of her life, being a bad mother. The article received a great response. The collection of articles Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace became a New York Times bestseller in 2009 .

As a screenwriter, she was involved in the 2019 series Unbelievable .

Works (selection)

Juliet Applebaum crime novels

  • Nursery Crimes . Berkley Prime Crime, New York 2001
    • Among good friends: a case for Juliet Applebaum . Translation of Usch Pilz. Heyne, Munich 2002
  • The Big Nap . Berkley Prime Crime, New York 2001
    • The sleep of the righteous: Juliet Applebaum investigates . Translation of Usch Pilz. Heyne, Munich 2003
  • Playdate With Death . Berkley Prime Crime, New York 2003
  • Death gets a time-out . Berkley Prime Crime, New York 2003
  • Murder Plays House . Berkley Prime Crime, New York 2004
  • The Cradle Robbers . Berkley Prime Crime, New York 2005
  • Bye-bye, Black Sheep . Berkley Prime Crime, New York 2006

Fiction and essays

  • Daughter's keeper . Novel. Naperville, Ill .: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2003.
  • Love and Other Impossible Pursuits . Doubleday, London 2006
    • So far from heaven: Roman . Translation of Charlotte Breuer. Diana-Verlag, Munich 2007
  • Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace . 2009
    • Bad mothers: my maternal sins, major and minor disasters, and moments of happiness . Translation Isabel Bogdan. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2010
  • Red Hook Road . Doubleday, New York 2010
  • with Robin Levi: Women Inside: Narratives from America's Incarcerated Women . McSweeney's, San Francisco 2011
  • Love and Treasure . Hodder & Staughton, 2014 ISBN 978-1-4447-6311-9
    • Jack Wiseman's Late Regret: Novel . Translation of Brigitte Hilzensauer. Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 2015
  • Foreword in: Tom Little; Katherine Ellison: Loving learning: how progressive education can save America's schools . WW Norton & Company, New York 2015
  • with Michael Chabon: Kingdom of Olives and Ash Writers Confront the Occupation . Perennial, 2017
  • A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life . Button Doubleday, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Waldman, Ayelet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem