Ellen Umansky has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of venues, including the New York Times, Salon, Playboy, and the short story anthologies LOST TRIBE: Jewish Fiction from the Edge and SLEEPAWAY: Writings on Summer Camp. She has worked in the editorial departments of The Forward, Tablet and The New Yorker. She grew up in Los Angeles, and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

Books by Ellen Umansky

The Fortunate Ones

by Ellen Umansky - Fiction

One very special work of art --- a Chaim Soutine painting --- will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthralling and transporting debut novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.