About

Adelle Waldman is the author of the novels Help Wanted (W.W. Norton, 2024) and The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (Henry Holt, 2013). Help Wanted was named a best book of 2024 The Economist, NPR and Time, among others and was recommended by Barack Obama. The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. was named one of 2013’s best books by The New Yorker, The Economist, The New Republic, NPR, Slate, Bookforum, The Guardian and many others. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University.

If you’d like to learn more about Adelle, check out this profile from New York Magazine or listen to her talk about “Help Wanted” on KCRW’s Press Play with Madeleine Brand.