Ayelet Waldman
Novelist and essayist
Ayelet Waldman is an Israeli-American novelist and essayist who once worked as a federal public defender. She wrote A Really Good Day, a book about microdosing.
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Born 1964 in Jerusalem, Israel
About Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman was born in Jerusalem on December 11, 1964. She has written mystery novels in the Mommy-Track Mysteries series, along with other novels such as Love and Treasure and Red Hook Road. She worked for three years as a federal public defender, and she also taught a course at the University of California, Berkeley law school on the legal side of the War on Drugs. Her fiction draws on her experience as a lawyer. Waldman has also written personal essays, including the collection Bad Mother, which The New York Times listed as a bestseller. A film with Natalie Portman in the lead was adapted from her novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. In A Really Good Day, she describes the difference microdosing made to her mood, her marriage and her life.