Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and. Her book of rhyming political tweets, Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus was published in August 2012 from Beacon Press. Two of her other novels have also been optioned for movies.

Her novel Then She Found Me was adapted into a 2008 feature film, directed by and starring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick, a process that took 19 years. Lipman received the New England Book award for fiction in 2001. Her 1998 novel The Inn at Lake Devine, explores Antisemitism and Jewish intermarriage. She lives in western Massachusetts and Manhattan. Lipman graduated from Simmons College where she studied journalism. She published her first novel, Then She Found Me, in 1990. Lipman’s first book, Into Love and Out Again, a collection of short stories, was published by Viking in 1987. She began writing fiction in 1979, and her first short story, “Catering,” was published in Yankee Magazine. She credits the adult education creative writing class she took at Brandeis University in 1978 for propelling her into writing fiction. Lipman also worked for a time for Boston's public television station, WGBH, writing press releases. Career ĭuring the 1970s she was a staff writer and editorial assistant for the Massachusetts Teachers Association monthly newsletter, Massachusetts Teacher. While still in college, Lipman worked as an intern for the Lowell Sun. She attended public schools and graduated from Simmons College (now Simmons University) in 1972 with a BA in journalism. Elinor Lipman (born October 16, 1950) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.Įlinor Lipman was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts to a Jewish family.

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