Brett Ellen Block Explained

Brett Ellen Block
Pseudonym:	Ellen Block
Birth Place:	Summit, New Jersey
Language:	English
Education:	Iowa Writers' Workshop
Alma Mater:	University of Michigan
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Brett Ellen Block (born 1973 in Summit, New Jersey) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Life

Block was born and raised in Summit, New Jersey.^{[1] [2]} She received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Hopwood and Haugh Prizes for Fiction Writing. She went on to earn graduate degrees at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of East Anglia’s Fiction Writing Program.^[3]

Her debut collection of short stories, "Destination Known," won the Drue Heinz Literary Prize, and she is a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Grave of God’s Daughter and the Macavity Award-nominated thriller The Lightning Rule ^[4]

Writing under the name "Ellen Block" she penned the novel The Language of Sand and its sequel, The Definition of Wind.

She lives in Los Angeles.

Awards

• 2001 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for Destination Known^[5]
• 2003 Michener-Copernicus Fellowship

Works

Short stories

• Book: Destination Known. University of Pittsburgh Press. September 27, 2001. 978-0-8229-4168-2.

Mystery

• Book: The Grave of God's Daughter. William Morrow. March 30, 2004. 978-0-06-052504-0 .
• Book: The Lightning Rule. Harper . November 27, 2007. 978-0-06-052508-8. (Paperbacks)
• Book: The Language of Sand. Bantam . April 5, 2010. 978-0-440-24575-9.
• Book: The Definition of Wind. Random House. June 28, 2011. 978-0-440-24576-6.

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Staff. "Block, Brett Ellen 1973–", Contemporary Authors, 2008. Accessed February 18, 2011.
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20071019103628/http://www.ucnj.org/news/2006/0612beb.html Freeholders Honor Brett Ellen Block of Summit
3. Web site: Brett Ellen Block from HarperCollins Publishers . 2010-03-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091231140740/http://harpercollins.com/authors/25288/Brett_Ellen_Block/index.aspx . 2009-12-31 . dead .
4. Web site: New Jersey Historical Society . 2010-03-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101008173209/http://jerseyhistory.org/news_detail.php?recid=98 . 2010-10-08 . dead .
5. Web site: Browse . 2019-06-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070518204118/http://www.upress.pitt.edu/renderHtmlPage.aspx?srcHtml=htmlSourceFiles%2Fdrueheinz.htm . 2007-05-18 . dead .