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Ayelet Waldman (born 1964 ) is an American writer of fiction , born in Jerusalem , and raised in Montreal and New Jersey .1She is the author of five novels about the "part-time sleuth and full-time mother": Juliet Applebaum: Nursery Crimes ( 2000 ), The Big Nap ( 2001 ), A Playdate with Death ( 2002 ), Death Gets a Time-Out ( 2003 ), and Murder Plays House ( 2004 ).2The collective title of the series is The Mommy-Track Mysteries . Waldman has also published one novel of general interest, Daughter's Keeper ( 2003 ). Waldman spent three years working as a Federal Public Defender in the Central District of California , and in all her fiction she has drawn extensively on her education ( Harvard Law School , Class of '91 ) and career as an attorney .3Her work unites a powerful sense of outrage and social injustice with a playful and self-deprecating sense of humor. She is married to the novelist Michael Chabon , and lives with him and their four children in Berkeley, California .4
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Ayelet Waldman (born December 11, 1964) is a writer of fiction and non-fiction , born in Jerusalem , and raised in Montreal and New Jersey .She is the author of seven novels about the "part-time sleuth and full-time mother" Juliet Applebaum. The collective title of the series is The Mommy-Track Mysteries . Waldman has said that the seventh installment in the series, Bye-Bye, Black Sheep (2006), is likely to be the last.Waldman has also published two novels of general interest, Daughter's Keeper ( 2003 ) and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits ( 2006 ).A graduate of Wesleyan University (1986) and Harvard Law School (1991), Waldman spent three years working as a Federal Public Defender in the Central District of California , and in all her fiction she has drawn extensively on her legal education and career as an attorney .
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Ayelet Waldman (born December 11, 1964) is an Israeli American novelist and essayist.She has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and three other novels.She has also written autobiographical essays about motherhood.Waldman spent three years working as a federal public defender and her fiction draws on her experience as a lawyer.
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American-Israeli writer Ayelet Waldman ( , born December 11, 1964) is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist. She has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and four other novels. She has also written autobiographical essays about motherhood. Waldman spent three years working as a federal public defender and her fiction draws on her experience as a lawyer.
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American-Israeli writer Ayelet Waldman ( Hebrew : איילת ולדמן ; born December 11, 1964) is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist. She has written seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and four other novels. She has also written autobiographical essays about motherhood. Waldman spent three years working as a federal public defender and her fiction draws on her experience as a lawyer.
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