Ellen Feld­man, a 2009 Guggen­heim fel­low, is the author of Ter­ri­ble Virtue, The Unwit­ting, Next to Love, Scotts­boro (short­list­ed for the Orange Prize), The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank (trans­lat­ed into nine lan­guages), and Lucy. Her last nov­el, Ter­ri­ble Virtue, was optioned by Black Bicy­cle for a fea­ture film.