Ellen Notbohm

Ellen Notbohm’s work touches millions worldwide in more than 25 languages. She is author of the nonfiction classic Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, three other books on autism, and the award-winning historical novel The River by Starlight. Ellen’s books have won the Chanticleer International Book Awards Grand Prize for Instruction and Insight, Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction, Western Writers of American Spur Award for Best First Novel, Independent Publishers Book Awards Gold Medals for Best Nonfiction Series and Best Regional Fiction, and been named three times to the Grand Prize Short List for the Eric Hoffer Books Awards. In addition to numerous finalist awards and bookstore staff picks, her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry appears in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies in the US and abroad. Her books and short prose have won more than 40 awards.