About Ellen Feldman: Ellen Feldman is an American writer. She was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, and her novel Scottsboro was shortlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction.
The official line is that, after the war, women couldn't wait to leave the offices and assembly lines and government agencies. But the real story was that the economy couldn't have men coming home without women going home, not unless it wanted a lot ...
