Ellie Block

Despite childhood learning disabilities that made it difficult to read and write, this award-winning author's books have been translated into several languages around the globe. She attended the University of Michigan, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of East Anglia's Writing Program in England then published novels with HarperCollins and Random House. Named after a Hemingway Heroine, she discovered that triumphing over challenges is where the best stories start.