Martha Elliott

MARTHA ELLIOTT has been a journalist for nearly forty years. She was mentored in graduate school by veteran journalist Fred W. Friendly and became his colleague, producing award-winning television programs and writing three books and numerous articles and speeches. She has run a newspaper and has also taught at Columbia and at the secondary school level. Elliott is the recipient of many awards; her most recent is Vassar’s Time Out Grant for 2014-2015 to write a novel. She has three children and several grandchildren and lives in Maine. Her most recent book is The Man in the Monster: An Intimate Portrait of a Serial Killer, published by Penguin Press in August 2015.