Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman
Waldman in 2009
Waldman in 2009
Born (1964-12-11) December 11, 1964 (age 59)
Jerusalem, Israel
OccupationNovelist, essayist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityIsraeli-American
EducationWesleyan University (BA)
Harvard University (JD)
Notable worksLove and Other Impossible Pursuits, Bad Mother: A Chronicle...
Spouse
(m. 1993)
Children4
Website
ayeletwaldman.com

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.