Pam Jenoff is an American author, lawyer, and professor of law at Rutgers University.
A resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey, Jenoff grew up in Evesham Township,[2] where she attended Cherokee High School.
[5] She had just begun practicing law at a private firm when the 9/11 attacks spurred her to pursue a personal goal of becoming a writer.
[4] The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach was begun some 20 years before its completion; Jenoff acknowledges Louisa May Alcott's Little Women as an inspiration for this novel.
Both novels rely on the history of Vera Atkins and the women she recruited and trained to work for Britain's Special Operations Executive during World War II.