Scottsboro

Ellen Feldman, a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, Scottsboro, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, Next To Love and The Unwitting. She lives in New York City with her husband.

'A fine novel ... Anyone who wants to appreciate the scale of the miracle that a black man has been elected president of the United States should sit down with Scottsboro -- Lionel Shriver Taut, haunting ... a suspenseful page-turner Daily Telegraph A keen sense of drama ... What emerges is a raw sense of alienation and collision Publishers' Weekly An astute history ... clear-sighted ... There were real innocents: African American young men who lost years of their lives, their health and hope. It is for them, and the bitter lessons they taught everyone who touched the case, that Feldman's book has been written and should be read Independent A riveting drama ... inspired and inspiring ... Ruby is a gem of a character, and belongs with the best of William Faulkner's, or Alice Walker's, women San Francisco Chronicle Feldman re-animates the drama in a novel that is based on archival records, court records, and first-person accounts but that succeeds overwhelmingly as a work of imagination ... distilled with great subtlety and wit, into a story worth retelling and remembering Boston Globe