Elinor Lipman considers herself only a special-occasion poet who knows full well that real bards don't rhyme and don't write couplets. She is the author of eight novels, among them My Latest Grievance, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, The Inn at Lake Devine, Isabel's Bed and The Ladies' Man. Fay Weldon wrote of My Latest Grievance in the Washington Post, "Up there at the top is where this enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exceptionally intelligent, wholly original and Austen-like stylist belongs... " The movie adaptation of her first novel, Then She Found Me, starring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, and Matthew Broderick, will be released in late April. My Latest Grievance won The Poetry Center's 2007 Paterson Fiction Prize's, awarded to the novel "deemed the year's strongest work of fiction." A string of her op-ed pieces will appear in the Boston Globe beginning Feb. 18. She divides her time between Northampton, Mass. and New York City, and will support Hillary Clinton, if necessary.

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