Ayelet Waldman

AYELET WALDMAN is the author of the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road , Love and Other Impossible Pursuits , and Daughter's Keeper , as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes , Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace , and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She was a federal public defender and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs at the UC Berkeley law school. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Michael Chabon, and their four children.