Ayelet Wald­man is the author of Red Hook Road and The New York Times best­seller Bad Moth­er: A Chron­i­cle of Mater­nal Crimes, Minor Calami­ties and Occa­sion­al Moments of Grace. Her nov­el Love and Oth­er Impos­si­ble Pur­suits was adapt­ed into a film called The Oth­er Woman star­ring Natal­ie Port­man. Her per­son­al essays and pro­files of such pub­lic fig­ures as Hillary Clin­ton have been pub­lished in a wide vari­ety of news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines, includ­ing The New York Times, Vogue, The Wash­ing­ton Post, and The Wall Street Jour­nal. Her radio com­men­taries have appeared on All Things Con­sid­ered and The Cal­i­for­nia Report.