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 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 Medals for Nonfiction Series and for Regional Fiction, American Book Fest’s Legacy Fiction and Nonfiction Awards, Eric Hoffer Book Awards for Reference/Education and Legacy Nonfiction, and been named three times to the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List, in addition to numerous finalist awards and bookstore staff picks in fiction and nonfiction.

Her short stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies in the US and abroad.