2009 Presenters
Elinor Lipman
Old South Church Sanctuary, 11 a.m.
Elinor Lipman, “an Austen-like stylist” (Washington Post Book World), is the author of eight previous novels, including The Inn at Lake Devine and My Latest Grievance, winner of the Paterson Fiction Prize. In 2001 she won the New England Book Award for Fiction. The film Then She Found Me, directed by and starring Helen Hunt, is based on her first novel.
In her newest screwball comedy, a man reconnects with a long-lost stepdaughter and finds his life turned upside down. In the words of Henry Alford, The Family Man (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is “just the fizzy but heartfelt romp that people need right now.”
Elinor lives in Massachusetts and New York City.
