Katherine Ellison
Katherine Ellison | |
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Born | ADHD and motherhood | August 19, 1957
Spouse | Jack Epstein |
Children | Joey Epstein Joshua Epstein |
Katherine Ellison (born August 19, 1957) is an American author. With two colleagues, she won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their work reporting on corruption in the Philippines.
Career
Ellison has authored and co-authored seven books, including: "Loving Learning: How Progressive Education Can Save America's Schools," Square Peg: My Story and What it Means for Raising Innovators, Visionaries, and Out-of-the-Box Thinkers, published by Hyperion Voice in March 2013; Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention, Hyperion Voice, 2010, The Mommy Brain: How motherhood makes us smarter (2005),[1] The New Economy of Nature: The quest to make conservation profitable, Imelda: Steel butterfly of the Philippines.
To promote her 2005 book The Mommy Brain: How motherhood makes us smarter, Ellison appeared on The CBS Early Show,
Ellison's writings have been published in publications such as Working Mother, ConservationMagazine.org,[4] Fortune,[5] Monthly Magazine, and Conservation in Practice.
Her consulting work includes speechwriting for Google.org and
Awards
Working for the
She has won other journalism prizes including the
Personal life
Ellison lives in San Anselmo, California and is married to Jack Epstein, foreign editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. They have two sons, Joey and Joshua Epstein.[7]
In 2007, then-48-year-old Ellison and her then-12-year-old son "Buzz," were diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and had a tumultuous relationship which Ellison describes in her memoir "Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention" (2010).[8][9]
References
- ^ Katherine Ellison. "The Mommy Brain by Katherine Ellison". TheMommyBrain.com. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
- ^ Amanda Bower (April 24, 2005). "The Mommy Brain". Time. Archived from the original on March 6, 2008. Retrieved February 3, 2015. (Subscription required.)
- ^ Katherine Ellison (May 8, 2005). "This Is Your Brain on Motherhood". The New York Times. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
- ^ Katherine Ellison (July 29, 2008). "Get Real". conservationmagazine.org. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-04-01.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "International Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
- ^ Annie Nakao (June 19, 2005). "Gaining smarts along the mommy track". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
...who lives in San Anselmo with husband, Jack Epstein, a foreign news editor at The Chronicle, and their two sons, Joey, 9, and Joshua, 6.
- ^ "'Paying Attention' With An ADHD Mother And Son". NPR. October 7, 2010. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
- ADDitude Magazine. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
Katherine Ellison, diagnosed with ADHD at age 48...
External links
- Official website
- "On the Fly with Katherine Ellison" – An Interview with Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics
- Katherine Ellison at Library of Congress, with 3 library catalog records