- In an astonishing debut novel, Ellen Sussman writes a heartbreaking tale filled with emotional intensity in the tradition of Anita Shreve's "Sea Glass (Little, Brown, 4/02), Elizabeth Berg's "Open House (Ballantine, 2001), and Sue Miller's "While I Was Gone (Ballantine, 1999).- With its spare, unsentimental prose, superbly realized characters, and vivid San Francisco setting, ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS is a timeless love story and a commercial novel with wide appeal.- Ellen Sussman has published many short stories in literary and commercial magazines, in addition to winning the short story contests of both "Redbook and "Paris Transcontinental, as well as a Writers at Work Fellowship. She has taught at Rutgers University, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins University.
Ellen Sussman's New York Times bestselling novel, FRENCH LESSONS, was published by Ballantine in July, 2011. It also hit the Indie Bound Best Seller List, The San Francisco Chronicle best seller list and NPR's list. She is the author of the novel, ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS, a San Francisco Chronicle Best-Seller. It has been translated into six languages. She is also the editor of two anthologies, DIRTY WORDS: A LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SEX and BAD GIRLS: 26 WRITERS MISBEHAVE, which was a New York Times Editors Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle Best-Seller. She has taught at Pepperdine, UCLA and Rutgers University. She now teaches through Stanford Continuing Studies and in private classes. Her website is www.ellensussman.com.
