Ellen Kushner

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ellen Kushner
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Oct 6, 1955(1955-10-06)
Age	69
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Libra

Ellen Kushner Biography

Ellen Kushner is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on October 6, 1955 in New York, United States. Ellen Kushner (born October 6 in 1955) is an American author of fantasy novels. From 1996 to the year her death in 2010, she was anchor of the popular radio show Sound & Spirit, produced by WGBH in Boston and broadcast through Public Radio International.

In the year 1996, Kushner created and programmed, and also hosted the show “Sound & Spirit”, produced by WGBH/PRI. “Sound & Spirit” was a weekly show that ran for an hour “exploring the human spirit through music and ideas.” The shows featured classical, folk and world music featuring a variety of guests, including Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart as well as the religious scholar Elaine Pagels, and writer Neil Gaiman. “Sound & Spirit” remained on air until the year 2010.

In 2002, she released a CD of her story The Golden Dreydl: A Klezmer Nutcracker, which uses music from Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker to tell a Hanukkah story. The music on the CD is performed by Shirim Klezmer Orchestra. The Golden Dreydl won a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television. A live theater version of The Golden Dreydl was performed in 2008 and 2009 at Vital Theater in New York City, written by Kushner (who played “Tante Miriam” in the 2008 production) and directed by Linda Ames Key.

In 2007, Kushner, along with Elizabeth Schwartz and Yale Strom, scripted the musical audio drama The Witches of Lublin for public radio. Based on the history of Jewish women who were klezmer musicians in 18th Century Europe, The Witches of Lublin premiered on radio stations nationwide in April 2011 with performances by Tovah Feldshuh and Simon Jones. It won the 2012 Wilbur Award for Best Single Program, Radio; the 2012 Grace Allen Award for Best Director, and the 2012 Gabriel Award: Arts, Local Release, Radio.

Kushner’s sequel novel Thomas the Rhymer, has been awarded The World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award in 1991. Kushner has also published short stories and poems in numerous anthologies, such as the Year’s Top Fantasy and Horror as well as The Borderland Series of urban fantasy anthologies for teenagers.

Ellen Kushner Net Worth

Ellen Kushner is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ellen Kushner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The year 1987 was the time that Kushner made the move her home from New York to Boston in 1987, and began her career as a radio presenter. She was a presenter for WBGH-FM’s public radio station and was the first host of the all-night radio show “Night Air”. In 1989, she was host of the Nakamichi International Musical Series for American Public Radio (now Public Radio International) and in the following years, she produced three Jewish holiday specials for APR, Festival of Liberation The Passover Story in World Music the Door is Open to the World: an Jewish Holiday Meditation, High Holiday Meditation Beyond 1492.

Her first novels were five Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks. At the time she also published her debut novel Swordspoint at the end of 1987. The sequel, set 18 years later than Swordspoint which was titled The Of the Privilege was published in July 2006 and a hardcover first edition was that was released in late August 2006 . The book was published by Small Beer Press. The Fall of the Kings (2002) (co-authored by Sherman) is set 40 years following Swordspoint. The three books are all mannerpunk, and are set in an unnamed capital city as well as the charming district, Riverside in which swordsmen-for-hire trade their trade.

Kushner was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Bryn Mawr College and graduated from Barnard College. She lives in New York City with her wife and sometime collaborator, Delia Sherman. They held a wedding in 1996 and were legally married in Boston in 2004. Kushner identifies as bisexual.

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Ellen Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ellen Kushner celebrates birthday on October 6 of every year.