Lucy Ellman
Lucy Ellmann is the daughter of Richard Ellmann, academic and biographer of Joyce, Yeats and Wilde, and Mary Ellmann, the feminist. Lucy was born in Illinois but moved to England at the age of thirteen when her father came to take up his chair at Oxford. Her first novel, Sweet Desserts, was the winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was followed by Varying Degrees of Hopelessness and Man or Mango? which was shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize for Fiction. Dot in the Universe is Lucy’s fourth novel and it was longlisted for the Orange Prize 2003. Lucy’s most recent novel is Doctors and Nurses published by Bloomsbury.
Titles
Doctors and Nurses (Bloomsbury, 2006)
Dot in the Universe (Bloomsbury, 2003)
Man or Mango? (Headline, 1998)
Varying Degrees of Hopelessness (Penguin, 1992)
Sweet Desserts (Penguin, 1989)