Ellen Klages is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, "The Greenhouse Effect," which has been translated into 25 languages and is considered by many to be one of the most powerful, poignant, and inspirational stories in recent fiction. It is a story about a mother's desperate attempts to save her young son from a life of illness and pain. Critically acclaimed for its originality and power, it has been called " an unforgettable story of love and loss" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The novel was inspired by the author's twenty-eight-year battle with Rett syndrome, an incurable neurodevelopmental disorder that causes loss of motor skills, distorted speech, and severe mental retardation
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"The Greenhouse Effect" was a 2009 Oprah Book Club selection and was listed as one of NPR's Best Books of 2009. Ellen Klages is also the author of two other novels: The Drowning Twins: A Novel About Autism and Asperger syndrome (shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction) and three collections of short stories: The Carriage House: Stories About Women; The Root Cellar: Stories About Marriage; and Other Stories. Her stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Tin House, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, and Alaska Quarterly Review.
She is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award in Fiction, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, a Creative Capital grant, and numerous journalism awards from such publications as Mother Jones and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.