1. Ayelet Waldman is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist.
26 Facts About Ayelet Waldman
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Ayelet Waldman has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and four other novels.
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Ayelet Waldman was raised in a Jewish family, attended Hebrew school and Jewish summer camps, and lived on a kibbutz in Israel for a year while in the tenth grade.
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Ayelet Waldman attended Wesleyan University, where she studied psychology and government, and studied in Israel in her junior year, graduating in 1986.
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Ayelet Waldman then entered Harvard Law School and graduated with a JD in 1991.
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Ayelet Waldman has been married to fellow author Michael Chabon since 1993.
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Ayelet Waldman has written several times about her 2002 diagnosis of bipolar disorder, an illness that runs in her family, and has spoken publicly about parenting while having a mental illness.
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Ayelet Waldman was a federal public defender for three years in the Central District of California.
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Ayelet Waldman was an adjunct professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley from 1997 to 2003.
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Ayelet Waldman worked as a consultant to the Drug Policy Alliance, a resource center advocating a drug policy based on harm reduction.
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Ayelet Waldman has written various online and print articles about mothering while at home on maternity leave after the birth of her first child and again after she left her job as a public defender.
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Ayelet Waldman has at various times said that she chose to write because it was not as time-consuming a career as the law, because it gave her something to do during naptimes, it kept her entertained, because she was starved of someone to laugh at her jokes and because it gave her a way of putting off going back to work.
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Ayelet Waldman has said that she chose mysteries because they are primarily about plot.
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Ayelet Waldman wrote seven novels about the "part-time sleuth and full-time mother" Juliet Applebaum.
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Ayelet Waldman has contributed short stories to the anthologies McSweeney's Stories of Love and Neuroses and McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, the latter of which was edited by Michael Chabon.
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Ayelet Waldman has written many personal essays for online and print publications aspects of motherhood, such as how women criticize each other's mothering, combining paid work with motherhood, and how the upbringing of those raised in a postfeminist era clashed with the reality of having to make professional sacrifices.
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Ayelet Waldman's essay led to extensive and vitriolic debate, on television shows like The View, on internet blogs, in coffee shops, and elsewhere.
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In 2009, Ayelet Waldman published a collection of her personal essays, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace.
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Ayelet Waldman contends that society are too hard on other women's parenting skills.
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Ayelet Waldman learned about this practice from a 2011 book by psychedelic researcher James Fadiman.
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Ayelet Waldman blogged on the 2008 Democratic National Convention and had a blog on her own website from 2008 to 2009 on a variety of subjects.
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Between 2015 and 2019, Ayelet Waldman worked on the development of the acclaimed Netflix television show Unbelievable.
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Ayelet Waldman created it with her spouse Michael Chabon and veteran writer Susannah Grant.
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Ayelet Waldman co-wrote with Chabon an episode of Star Trek: Picard, and is credited as a co-executive producer on five episodes.
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Ayelet Waldman's husband was the showrunner on the first season.
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On 26 April 2024, Ayelet Waldman was arrested by Israeli police as she tried to take food to Palestinians inside Gaza.