About...

Ellen Baker was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and grew up in Wisconsin, Illinois, and South Dakota. She has worked as a costumed living history interpreter, a curator of a World War II museum, and as a bookseller and event coordinator at an independent bookstore. She lives in Minnesota.

Awards and Special Recognition...

KEEPING THE HOUSE
Midwest Connections Pick
Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2007
Great Lakes Booksellers Association Award for adult fiction, 2008 (August 21, 2008)