Helen Schulman (born April 1961) is an American novelist, short story, non-fiction, and screenwriter.
"[2] The New York Times writes, "Schulman has wrapped her distress in such an attractive package that the book slides down almost without your noticing its seriousness of purpose.
"[4] Kirkus reviews writes, the book is "Richly imagined, profound, and of the moment"[5] and San Francisco Chronicle calls it "mind-blowingly brilliant.
"[6] Speaking with Evangeline Riddiford in an interview about her book, Schulman says, "My father, an atheist, always said both heaven and hell were right here on earth.
The New Yorker wrote, “Schulman, in her fourth novel, gets both her cultural moment and the psychological particulars of a disintegrating marriage exactly right, and her writing is distractingly, almost brazenly beautiful.
She has written numerous screenplays, including co-writing an adaptation of her novel P.S., which was made into a film in 2004 starring Laura Linney.