Ellin Berlin (née Mackay, March 22, 1903 – July 29, 1988) was an American author.

[1] They eloped and were married in a simple civil ceremony at the Municipal Building, away from media attention.

Because Irving was Jewish and Ellin was an Irish Catholic, their life was followed in every possible detail by the press, which found the romance between a self-made Jewish immigrant from the Lower East Side and a young heiress to be a sensational story.

[4] Ellin Berlin wrote a number of articles for The New Yorker before her marriage; her November 20, 1925, piece "Why We Go to Cabarets—A Post-Debutante Explains" was the magazine's first newsstand hit and helped save it.

[5] In 1933 she began writing short stories for the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal.