A Perfect Hand has all the ingredients of a charming Victorian romance novel: a scheming matchmaker plot, an upstairs-downstairs dynamic, and a hefty dose of petticoats. But author Ayelet Waldman also ...

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A lady's maid and a gentleman's valet fall in love and hatch a plan to get their employers together in the new novel "A Perfect Hand." NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with author Ayelet Waldman about it.

The challenges of motherhood don't hold a candle to the challenge of sleuthing for Juliet Applebaum, the heroine of Waldman's third sparkling "mommy-track" mystery (Nursery Crimes; The Big Nap). Once ...

Ayelet Waldman sent shock waves through the mom-o-sphere in 2005 when she wrote an essay saying she loves her husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, more than her children. She ...

Novelist and essayist Waldman (Bad Mother)—mother of four, married to another high-profile writer (Michael Chabon)—worked as a federal public defender and taught at prestigious law schools. After ...

The author recommends works by Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Jane Austen ...

Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two mainstays of the Jewish literary world who happen to be married to each other, have, in their novels, investigated much of the richness, strangeness and conflict ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- You may know the celebrity author couple Ayelet Waldman and her husband Michael Chabon. Waldman has written more than a dozen novels and Chabon is a Pulitzer Prize winner. "I ...

Ayelet Waldman was a federal public defender at the height of the War on Drugs, so even though she supported loosening the laws against drugs she was wary of taking them herself. “There really isn’t ...