Elinor Lipman (born October 16, 1950)[1] is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

[citation needed] While still in college, Lipman worked as an intern for The Sun, a daily newspaper in Lowell.

Lipman also worked for a time for Boston's public television station, WGBH, writing press releases.

[3] She began writing fiction in 1979, and her first short story, "Catering", was published in Yankee Magazine.

Her novel Then She Found Me was adapted into a 2008 feature film, directed by and starring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick, a process that took 19 years.

The View from Penthouse B (her 10th novel) and I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) were published in 2013.

[10] In 2022, the Pollard Memorial Library Foundation in Lowell, Massachusetts established an Elinor Lipman award for writing, to honor a book by a Lowell-based writer.