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About Ellen
In the late 1980s, I worked for ABC Radio News as their Moscow correspondent, and over the years have written feature stories for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Journal newspapers, the Washington, D.C. area's largest suburban newspaper (now called the Washington Enquirer). While living in London, I wrote my first novel, Moscow Nights, (Piatkus Books, 2001) which was published in the UK and was based on my experiences in the former Soviet Union during the waning days of the Gorbachev era. 
Prior to working as a journalist, I was an economist at the United States Senate. I have a master's degree in international relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in political science from The Catholic University of America. I spent my junior year of undergraduate school in Madrid, Spain and did a semester of graduate studies in Bologna, Italy. I am fairly fluent in French and Spanish and speak a smattering of Russian (I can count to ten and say "I don't understand" like a native speaker). I remember less Italian than I believe I do, and it has gotten me into trouble. I was born in Boston, Massachusetts but grew up mostly in Connecticut, after detours to Alabama and Pennsylvania. I now live with my family in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. -- where The Merlot Murders, The Chardonnay Charade, and The Bordeaux Betrayal (Scribner, August 2008) are set. I am a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and the North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers. Currently I serve as MWA’s liaison to the Library of Congress’s Reading Promotion Partners Program, which is sponsored by the Center for the Book. Last updated: 3/13/08
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