Lucy Ellmann (born 18 October 1956) is an American-born British novelist based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Biography Her first book, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann and of the feminist literary critic Mary Ellmann. She is the sister of the critic Maud Ellmann. She is married to the American writer Todd McEwen. Her fourth novel, Dot in the Universe, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Believer Book Award. Retrieved October 08, 2018. Her novel, Ducks, Newburyport was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2019. It won the 2019 Goldsmiths PrizeSee https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/archive. Accessed 22 July 2020. and the 2020 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.
Ellmann lectured and led seminars in Creative Writing at the University of Kent between September 2009 and July 2010.
Ellmann has been recognised with honours and fellowships, including the Royal Literary Fund; Queen Margaret University 2017/18; University of Dundee 2011/12; Queen Margaret University 2005–07; and been a Hawthornden Fellow and Hawthornden fellowship residence at Hawthornden Castle.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 2025.
Notable works Sweet Desserts (1988) Varying Degrees of Hopelessness (1991) The Spy Who Caught a Cold (screenplay, 1995) Man or Mango? A Lament (1999) Dot in the Universe (2003) Doctors & Nurses (2006) Mimi (2013) Ducks, Newburyport (2019) Things Are Against Us (2021)
References
Sources Retrieved October 8, 2018.
External links Lucy Ellmann at Bloomsbury.com New York Times review of Dot in the Universe Interview from The Daily Telegraph magazine Believer Book Awards finalists