Ilene Beckerman

Ilene Beckerman
Born 1935 (age 82–83)
Residence Bethlehem Township, New Jersey, US
Nationality American
Occupation writer
Known for Love, Loss, and What I Wore (1995)

Ilene Beckerman (born 1935) is an American writer, who was not published until she was 60 years old, and a former advertising agency executive. She is best known for her first book Love, Loss, and What I Wore, published in 1995, which in 2008 became a successful play written by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron based on her book.

Early life

Ilene Beckerman was born in 1935,[1] and grew up in Manhattan in the 1940s and 1950s.[2]

Career

Beckerman did not start her career as a writer until she was almost 60 years old, after having risen to become vice-president of an advertising agency.[3][2] Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times', and Ladies' Home Journal.[3]

In 1995, at the age of 60, Beckerman published Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which Publishers Weekly called a " "captivating little pictorial autobiography for adults ... a wry commentary on the pressures women constantly face to look good".[2][1]

In 2011, she published, The Smartest Woman I Know, and account of her life with her grandmother, Ettie Goldberg, who she grew up with as a teenager.[4]

Selected publications

Personal life

When she was 12 years old, her mother died, and she went to live in Manhattan with her grandparents, who ran a candy store on Madison Avenue between 64th and 65th Streets.[4]

In 1955, aged 20-years-old, Beckerman married her Boston sociology professor, 17 years her senior.[2] The marriage was short-lived and ended in divorce. She married again, and had six children, one of whom died in infancy, and eventually divorced.[2]

Beckerman lives in Bethlehem Township, New Jersey, with her husband Stanley.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Ilene Beckerman". forward.com. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Nonfiction Book Review: Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Ilene Beckerman, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $14.95 (164p) ISBN 978-1-56512-111-9". publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Ilene Beckerman - Workman Publishing". Workman Publishing. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Ilene Beckerman of Bethlehem Township writes memoir of her Jewish grandmother". NJ.com. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
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