Elinor Lipman
Elinor Lipman is the author of sixteen novels, including Good Riddance, On Turpentine Lane, Rachel to the Rescue and Ms. Demeanor, which was a finalist for the 2023 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her debut, Then She Found Me, was adapted into a film directed by and starring Helen Hunt, with Bette Midler, Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick. She won the New England Book Award in 2001, and her novel My Latest Grievance won the Paterson Fiction Prize. She divides her time between Manhattan and the Hudson Valley.

