About Ellen

Ellen Notbohm’s internationally renowned work has informed and delighted millions in more than twenty-five languages. In addition to her perennial bestseller Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, three other award-winning books on autism, and her widely acclaimed novel The River by Starlight, her columns and posts have appeared in major publications and captured audiences on every continent. Ellen’s books have won the Chanticleer International Book Awards Grand Prize for Instruction and Insight, Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction, Western Writers of American Spur Award for Best First Novel, Independent Publishers of America Gold Medal for West-Mountain Regional Fiction, American Book Fest’s Legacy Fiction Award, and been named to the Grand Prize Short List and Montaigne Medal finalist list for the Eric Hoffer Books Awards, in addition to numerous finalist awards and bookstore staff picks in fiction and nonfiction.

Her short stories and creative nonfiction have most recently appeared in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Eclectica, Well Read, Academy of the Heart and Mind, as well as anthologies in the US and Australia.

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