Cheryl Mendelson is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
She is the author of Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (1999), and a trilogy of novels, Morningside Heights (2003), Love, Work, Children (2005), and Anything for Jane (2007).
In 2019, Home Comforts was ranked by Slate as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the past 25 years.
[2] She was formerly a professor of philosophy at Purdue University and Columbia University, and published essays on ethical theory.
Her husband, Edward Mendelson, is an English professor at Columbia University.