Katherine Ellison


Selected Works

Nonfiction
The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter
"...Ellison's often humorous and always thorough approach...will amuse and intrigue smart mothers everywhere...."
-- Publishers Weekly
The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable
"A lively and outstanding book."
--Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel
Imelda: Steel Butterfly of the Philippines
"The research here is superb, the writing is gripping and graceful."
--The Washington Post
Recent Articles
“Shopping for carbon credits”, Salon.com, July 2007
“An Inconvenient Woman”, More.com, March 2007
“Gone with the Wind”, Salon.com, March 2007
“Giving Meditation a Spin”, Washington Post, January 2007
“Global Warming-era parenthood”, Los Angeles Times, December 2006
“It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Stupidity,” The New York Times, July 2006
“Turned Off by Global Warming”, New York Times, May 2006

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“Ellison has done her homework, citing legitimate social and neurological research to back up her conclusions—a procedure sadly lacking in too many books about parenting.”
—Library Journal

“Ellison’s often humorous and always thorough approach . . . will amuse and intrigue smart mothers everywhere.”
—Publishers Weekly