Ellen B. Alden is a former elementary teacher who has turned her love for history, education, and family into an award-winning historical novel. Based on a series of nineteen letters written by her great-great grandfather that she found one day in her attic, Yours Faithfully, Florence Burke tells the story of an Irish farmer who emigrated to West Springfield, Massachusetts to escape the ravages of the Great Famine and later faced the desolation of Civil War battlefields in Virginia as a volunteer in the Union Army.
Ellen’s debut novel is the winner of the 2017 Independent Publishers of New England award for genre fiction. Her book talks and tours have taken her throughout New England, to the Midwest, and to Ireland.
Ellen is a graduate of Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. She also attended Pepperdine University and Merrimack College Graduate School of Education. Ellen lives north of Boston with her husband, three children, two dogs, and a hedgehog named Pocahontas.