Ayelet Waldman is the author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Daughter's Keeper and the Mommy-Track Mysteries. Her personal essays have been published in a wide variety of periodicals, including the New York Times, Elle Magazine, and the Guardian. She has a regular column on Salon.com.

Her books are published throughout the world, in countries as disparate as England and Thailand.

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits has been optioned for the movies, with a screenplay written by Don Roos, the writer and director of The Opposite of Sex and Happy Endings.