Ellyn Bache

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A native of Washington, DC, Ellyn studied English at the Universities of North Carolina and Maryland, meaning someday to teach. Instead, she met Terry Bache - a conservative Catholic Marine raised on a farm and just back from Vietnam, while she was from a liberal, urban, Jewish family. They married and began a 30-year "discussion" of their differences while having the first of their four children. Instead of teaching, Ellyn was soon a full-time mom. She began writing nearly 30 years ago when her first two children were toddlers and she wanted to stay home with them but still have something "adult" to do. While they napped, she wrote freelance newspaper stories for The Washington Post and other papers, and began teaching herself to write short fiction. It took six years, two more children and countless rejection slips before her first story was published in McCall's! Once her youngest child went to school, Ellyn finally began her first novel, Safe Passage (about a woman with seven sons), which was later made into a film starring Susan Sarandon. Many more novels and short stories followed, including a collection of stories that won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, and several books that became Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club selections. Ellyn has always written mostly for women but also (with her late husband, under the pen name E.M.J. Benjamin) she wrote a teen novel about a wrestler with epilepsy and (with a musician friend, since Ellyn has no musical talent at all), she coauthored the book of a muscial comedy about a group of aspiring writers. When she isn't writing, Ellyn spends most of her time working in the garden or walking her dog, Chief, a border-collie-lab mix who loves being outside. A native of Washington, DC, Ellyn has spent all her life on the east coast, mainly in Maryland and North Carolina, where much of her work is set. She lives in an old house in Wilmington, NC, only a few miles from the ocean. You may visit her on the web at www.ellynbache.com.

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Kaleidoscope
Representative edition published 2016
Open Work
The Art of Saying Goodbye
Representative edition published 2011
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Raspberry Sherbet Kisses
Representative edition published 2007
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Over 50's Singles Night
Representative edition published 2006
Open Work
Daughters of the sea
Representative edition published 2005
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Daughters Of The Sea (Next Tall)
Representative edition published 2005
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The activist's daughter
Representative edition published 2005
Open Work
Riggs Park
Representative edition published 2005
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Daddy and the Pink Flash
Representative edition published 2003
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Holiday Miracles
Representative edition published 2001
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Festival in fire season
Representative edition published 1996
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Safe passage
Representative edition published 1996
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Culture clash
Representative edition published 1995
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The value of kindness
Representative edition published 1993
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Sightless among Miracles
Representative edition published 2022
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The art of saying goodbye
Representative edition published 2011
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The art of saying goodbye
Representative edition published 2011
Open Work
Over 50's Singles Night (Next Tall)
Representative edition published 2006
Open Work
What locals know about Wilmington and its beaches
Representative edition published 1993
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What Locals Know About Wilmington and Its Beaches
Representative edition published 1993
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