Elizabeth (“Betsy”) Hawes is an American author, journalist and ghostwriter. She has several books to her credit.

Works

Hawes is former staff member at ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...

'', and has contributed "Talk of the Town" and "Reporter" pieces to that magazine, as well as essays and reviews to ''

The New York Times Magazine ''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. The magazi ...

'' and ''

Book Review A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is merely described (summary review) or analyzed based on content, style, and merit. A book review may be a primary source, an opinion piece, a summary review, or a scholarly view. B ...

'', ''

The Nation ''The Nation'' is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper ...

'' and numerous other publications. She was also the

ghostwriter A ghostwriter is a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are credited to another person as the author. Celebrities, executives, participants in timely news stories, and political leaders often h ...

for

Martha Stewart Martha Helen Stewart (, ; born August 3, 1941) is an American retail business woman, writer, and television personality. As the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, focusing on home and hospitality, she gained success through a variety ...

’s best-selling books ''Entertaining'' and ''Weddings''. Hawes is the author of ''New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1930'' (Knopf, 1992), a narrative account of the golden age of the New York luxury

apartment house An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), tenement ( Scots English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) th ...

that tells how New York was transformed architecturally, socially, and psychologically from a provincial city into a great metropolis. Her most recent book, ''Camus: A Romance'', (Grove Press, 2009) is a biography-memoir of the Nobel Prize–winning French-Algerian writer

Albert Camus Albert Camus ( ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the s ...

, in which she chronicles his life along with her own experience trying to follow in his footsteps.

Personal life

Hawes, who is also known as Betsy Weinstock, is married with three children and resides in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard.

References

External links

* http://camusaromance.com * http://elizabethhawes.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Hawes, Elizabeth Living people American non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers