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	Ayelet Waldman \| Books: Daughter's Keeper
		Ayelet Waldman's new novel, "Daughter's Keeper," attacks the war on drugs through its main character: "I think this war you're fighting isn't against drugs at all," Olivia, facing drug charges, tells a judge.
		Ayelet Waldman, a former public defender who teaches the legal and social implications of America's drug enforcement policies at Berkeley, could have easily written a brainy nonfiction book on the flaws and failures of the so-called war on drugs.
		Although Waldman is clearly no fan of mandatory minimums, she follows the dictates of every good writing teacher by showing, not telling, the readers the results of this misguided law.
	www.ayeletwaldman.com /books_dk.html (927 words)

	Ayelet, Unfiltered / Berkeley writer Ayelet Waldman's bald honesty about putting her husband first made her a magnet ...
		Waldman went almost overnight from working quietly in the study she shares with her husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon, to the Oprah show and the pages of the New Yorker (which referred to her as a well-known columnist and blogger).
		Waldman's essay in the new collection got the most attention, but many others are on difficult or provocative topics: surrogate mothers, single women choosing to have kids, nanny jealousy, poor immigrant women who leave their children behind to work for affluent American families.
		Waldman said she was thrilled when, in a fleeting reference in May, the New Yorker mentioned her as a writer evolved from the tradition of English diarist E.M. Delafield, who created a comic diary in the 1920s about the seemingly everyday life of a woman she called the Provincial Lady.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/24/CMG7RDC7S61.DTL (4527 words)

	Ayelet Waldman, Summer 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I don't know Ayelet Waldman, except to say hello to -- but I do know that she is a mother as well as a daughter and her understanding and clarity of both roles is wonderful, but it is her ability to express that is fantastic!
		With Ayelet's understanding and keen eye she tells the story of mother and daughter, the layer upon layer of complexities of the interaction between them, and understanding is an understatement.
		Ayelet: The other side of what we spoke of earlier is that since being a PD I had a part in the war on drugs, and the moment I realized I couldn’t do this anymore was really when I had this client Philippe.
	www.anovelview.com /chats/ayelet_waldman_2003.htm (1438 words)

	Salon.com Life \| Letters
		Waldman's reprehensible selfishness is neither typical of nor acceptable to the majority of us who have bipolar disorder, however overwhelming.
		Waldman, if your four children are yours biologically, then chances are at least one of them is, or will be, bipolar.
		As a bipolar mother who is essentially Waldman's Delawarian "twin," I found myself identifying not only with her struggle, but realizing that I was myself in serious need of a doctor.
	www.salon.com /mwt/letters/2005/03/22/ayelet2_letters (1111 words)

	Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation (FAMM Foundation) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ayelet knew she had to express her outrage over the failed war on drugs and its effects, especially on women.
		Ayelet Waldman is the mother of four children, and it was her intimate knowledge of motherhood and the fear that all parents have of losing a child, that transformed her searing indictment of the war on drugs into a story about the power and permanence of the mother-daughter relationship.
		Ayelet Waldman is a former federal public defender and an adjunct professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, where she teaches an upper level seminar on the legal and social implications of the war on drugs.
	www.famm.org /ac_calendar_ayelet_book_signing_10_28_03.htm (1014 words)

	Chabon, Waldman share lives as writers, parents - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Ayelet Waldman is outgoing, gregarious, the type of person who can light up any conversation with her engaging wit and personality.
		Waldman, however, wasn't always certain her husband was on the right track.
		Waldman already has finished her next "Mommy-Track" mystery, and she's also penned another novel she says is an attempt at more serious fiction.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/books/s_94238.html (748 words)

	10.29.2003 - Boalt lecturer’s first novel blends maternal fears with a hard-nosed view of America’s drug war
		During Ayelet Waldman’s three years as a deputy federal public defender in Los Angeles, the majority of people she represented were charged with drug-related crimes.
		This scenario is far from atypical, reports Waldman, since many women go to prison because they’re implicated in the drug activities of their boyfriends or husbands, leaving no one at home to care for the children.
		Waldman, who averages about six months to write a “Mommy Track” mystery, was pregnant with her fourth child while she was working on Daughter’s Keeper.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2003/10/29_wald.shtml (922 words)

	Profiles: A Profile of Ayelet Waldman
		Waldman has admitted that she is ambitious -- as a Harvard law school grad and former federal defender, how could she not be -- and in the early days of her marriage, she and Chabon always assumed she would be the breadwinner.
		Waldman herself, who juggles childcare with writing, whose children spend their days in school, with nannies, in a patchwork of caregivers and family, does not apologize for her choices.
		Waldman's waiting for a babysitter to call, someone who'll be caring for the kids while she and her husband travel to New York for a rare dual book tour.
	www.literarymama.com /profiles/archives/000112.html (1299 words)

	, Nursery Crimes (Mommy-Track Mysteries (Paperback)), Nursery Crimes (Mommy-Track Mysteries (Paperback)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ayelet Waldman has given birth to a fresh new franchise with her Mommy-Track Mysteries.
		Waldman is very much like her character Juliet--a former public defender who is now a stay at home mom.
		Waldman and her heroine are women to be respected and admired for their accomplishments, and I can't wait to spend more time with Juliet in her further adventures.
	node605116.bookshop.com.ru /18/605116/item/042518000X.htm (1347 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Death Gets a Time-Out at Epinions.com
		Waldman has engaged in the kind of genre-bending that makes top-notch mysteries so much more engaging than the majority of contemporary "mainstream" fiction—those books by authors whose desiccated minimalism and aversion-to-true-narrative leave so many of us gasping for air and reaching for reissued paperbacks of the long dead.
		Waldman herself has said they’re designed "to be read during one all-night nursing session," and the importance of what she’s tackling therein can be masked by her exquisite comic timing.
		Ayelet Waldman reminds us that it’s okay to be a little uppity about the whole thing right now.
	www.epinions.com /content_108516707972 (1084 words)

	PROFILE / Ayelet Waldman / Everybody has life-changing days. For Ayelet Waldman, it was the day she quit her job as ...
		For Ayelet Waldman, it was the day she quit her job as public defender in disgust, opening the path to becoming a writer.
		For Ayelet Waldman, 39, adjunct professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, drug policy is Topic A. Writing and publishing take up a chunk of time, too.
		Waldman was born in 1964 in Israel, a place she has returned to again and again.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/22/DD270575.DTL (2024 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Daughter's Keeper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Waldman takes a somewhat didactic approach-U.S. drug laws are discussed at length, and the story of Elaine and Olivia's relationship can read like a case history-but Waldman's passion and affection for her characters shines through.
		There's a valid social message here, but Ayelet doesn't shove it down our throats or beat us about the heads with it; the characters are multidimensional and very much alive, and the prickly intimacy of the relationship between a middle-aged mother and her grown daughter is captured very aptly.
		Ayelet delivers the legal maneuverings and courtroom tension you might find in a John Grisham novel with the intelligence, wit and warmth of the Ivy League educated attorney and mother that she is. It makes for a great combination and a very satisfying read.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/140220096X?v=glance (2056 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Nursery Crimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nursery Crimes, progeny of first-time author Ayelet Waldman, bills itself as a mommy track mystery, the first in a series featuring Juliet Applebaum, a 5-foot-tall dynamo who gave up a career as a public defender to stay home with her daughter Ruby.
		Waldman, herself a former prosecutor turned stay-at-home mom, derives humorous mileage from Juliet's "epicurean" cravings, wardrobe dilemmas, night-owl husband, and obvious delight in adventure.
		Ayelet Waldman is a Harvard Law School graduate and former federal Public Defender who is now a stay-at-home mom.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/042518000X/reviews (709 words)

	'Playdate' goes beyond author's experience - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Ayelet Waldman's first mystery novel, "Nursery Crimes," was culled from her life as a former public defender and stay-at-home mother.
		When Waldman, the wife of novelist Michael Chabon, published her first book, her writing experience was limited to legal briefs and filings.
		In "Playdate," Waldman has increased the complexity of her story, adding issues concerning drug policy and gun laws in addition to adoption and genetic diseases.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/books/s_94240.html (564 words)

	Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant: Dr. Bersherloff on Ayelet Waldman
		Waldman confessed that she had voiced suicidal urges on her blog and frightened her family in the process, and "Truly, Madly, Guiltily," whereby getting it on with her stallion, Pulitzer-Prize winning husband was prioritized above and beyond being a mother.
		Waldman: "The game, more important, that exemplified everything that was wrong with my childhood in suburban New Jersey, a short, pasty-faced Jewish girl in a town full of scrubbed, blond, athletic WASPs, their long tanned limbs toned from years of tennis lessons and country club swim teams?"
		Waldman: "I know it's fashionable to claim to have been a nerd as a child, to insist on having scrabbled to hold on to the lowest tier of the social ladder, to recount years of torture at the hands of the golden and anointed.
	www.edrants.com /reluctant/002140.html (1418 words)

	Ayelet Waldman
		Ayelet (pronounced I-yell-it) wrote Nursery Crimes, the first Juliet Applebaum mystery, during her son's daily naptime.
		Ayelet and her husband, the novelist Michael Chabon (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh) live in Berkeley, California with their three children and a Bernese Mountain Dog named Fanny.
		Ayelet squeezes her writing sessions into days taken up with driving carpools, running to piano lessons (Sophie's, not hers) and folding endless loads of very small laundry.
	murderexpress.bravepages.com /ayeletwaldman (174 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: A Playdate with Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Waldman's deft portrayal of Los Angeles's upper crust and of the dilemma facing women who want it all will make it possible for readers to forgive a rather flimsy plot.
		Ayelet Waldman is a natural storyteller who has created such an intricate mystery that readers will want to finish the book in one sitting while obtaining other Mommy-Track novels.
		Waldman also referenced Sue Grafton as a role model in the acknowledgements, and maybe she's closer to Grafton than the other two (because I think Grafton, while rather compelling, isn't as interesting or complete in the way she fills in background and character).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0425191044 (1420 words)

	duck for cover - daughter's keeper - ayelet waldman
		First off: Daughter's Keeper, by my favourite brave and sensible author Ayelet Waldman (hear her talk good sense in that interview).
		And Ayelet obviously knows what she's talking about (having been a public defender): this may be a fictional story, but it could have happened this way, and that stinks.
		And as a follower I can't help but smile at Ayelet's good sense of economy as well: a trip she must have taken to Mexico for research yields results for both this book and Death Gets a Time-out.
	www.eend.nl /dfc/:::/00000263.htm (230 words)

	Behind the Stove: Ayelet Waldman's travails (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ayelet Waldman takes another reader beating in today's Salon.
		I have to admit I was so thoroughly disgusted with the beginning of her article on hoping her son would be gay that I didn't even finish it, but man, alot of readers did, and only one had anything complimentary to say.
		As I mentioned previously, I am quickly concluding that Waldman is much more immature and self-absorbed than I thought.
	behindthestove.blogspot.com /2005/03/ayelet-waldmans-travails.html (245 words)

	Alameda County Community Food Bank
		Born in Israel, Waldman grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Berkeley with her husband and four young children.
		She is a former federal public defender and teaches a seminar in federal drug policy at the UC Berkeley school of law (Boalt Hall).
		Waldman’s books will be available for purchase at the event.
	www.accfb.org /pr_book_event.html (331 words)

	blogrunner: The New York Times - Ayelet Waldman Virtual Weblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For those who haven't heard, Ayelet Waldman is getting kicked around the blogosphere for her extremely personal essay published in the "Modern Love" section of the New York Times.
		Ayelet did not pen the piece with the intention of pulling her pants down in the New York Times.
		I only wish I had thought of the comment written over at I Love Books: Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon have somehow turned into the Angelina Jolie/Billy Bob Thornton couple of the literary world.
	ltf121.chi.us.siteprotect.com /snapshot/D/1/7/4246151009D08317 (1090 words)

	wordnerdy: ayelet waldman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		the new biweekly column in salon by mystery writer ayelet waldman (who is also the wife of michael chabon) started today.
		Mostly because she is married to Michael Chabon and I am not, but also because she is a published writer and lovely and talented and smart, and because she has a cool name.
		i actually am glad i'm not ayelet waldman--if i was a writer married to michael chabon, i would have constant feelings of inadequacy.
	www.unc.edu /~korenman/2005/03/ayelet-waldman.html (218 words)

	Maud Newton: Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Last week Ayelet Waldman, Bad Mother blogger and wife of Michael Chabon, started a new column at Salon.
		Yesterday Justin of the excellent Beautiful Stuff blog transcribed part of a recent Literary Friendships conversation between Waldman and Chabon (moderated by Garrison Keillor), in which Waldman argued that blogging is bad for fiction writing and Chabon agreed.
		Salon readers denounce Waldman’s "display of self-justifying narcissism." Jane Smiley and others leap to her defense.
	maudnewton.com /blog/index.php?p=4912 (601 words)

	Bad Mother
		Something to distract Ayelet when she should be working
		Please continue to email me with your comments, etc. And I'll be reading your blogs.
		Milagros, the Mermaid Baby, is going to have surgery to have her legs split.
	bad-mother.blogspot.com (1697 words)

	Review \| Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman
		Fans of Ayelet Waldman -- author of the quirky Mommy Track mysteries -- better be prepared to seal up those pigeonholes.
		But that's OK because Waldman's intent is a serious one as she tells the story of a family caught in the web of a flawed criminal justice system.
		By that point, Waldman has snagged both our attention and our hearts as we become fully engaged in the tangle of the court system, which is mirrored in the equally complicated family dynamics.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/daughterskeeper.html (999 words)

	Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: She would have been better off to keep blogging
		When Ayelet Waldman had her short-lived blog a few months ago, I checked in at least once a day.
		But while we're thinking and worrying about what Ayelet Waldman is or is not inflicting on her children, think about all the truly abusive, nasty, harmful parents who are doing things behind closed doors that we can't see.
		I liked Ayelet Waldman's blog too, more than I liked her Salon essay (the "officialness" of a real published piece made it seem less compelling) and much more than I liked the NYT piece.
	www.sarahweinman.com /confessions/2005/03/she_would_have_.html (1916 words)

	Pandagon: I can't believe I'm even going to get close to defending Ayelet Waldman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Let me make it clear that I am not defending Ayelet Waldman's stupid essay yesterday about being a "bad" feminist because her husband fixes everything.
		Waldman claims that household repair is the "only" area of her marriage that is "traditional." I find this extremely hard to swallow.
		But it is telling the amount of projection that goes on--I have been witness to many a righteous rant from an MRA about the annual chore of cleaning out the rain gutters with nary a peep of acknowledgement that cleaning and cooking are the dictionary definitions of Sisyphean tasks.
	www.pandagon.net /archives/2005/06/i_cant_believe.html (5315 words)

	Powell's Books - Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman
		Ayelet Waldman mixes family psychology with courtroom tension in a story that catapults self-sufficient Elaine and her headstrong daughter Olivia into a nightmarish scenario when Olivia falls victim to the ferocity of the war on drugs.
		"Waldman takes a somewhat didactic approach — U.S. drug laws are discussed at length, and the story of Elaine and Olivia's relationship can read like a case history — but Waldman's passion and affection for her characters shines through."
		Ayelet Waldman graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for a federal judge prior to becoming a public defender.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-140220096x-0 (530 words)

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