Ellen Akins

Ellen Akins is an American novelist born in South Bend, Indiana. Source. She earned degrees from the University of Southern California and Johns Hopkins University, authored novels including Home Movie (1988), Little Woman (1990), Public Life (1993), and Hometown Brew (1998), as well as the short story collection World Like a Knife (1991), and has taught creative writing at several universities. Foundation. She received the 1989 Whiting Award, a 1993 American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and grants from the NEA and Ingram Merrill Foundation.