Ellen Wayland-Smith is the author of two books of American cultural history, Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table (Picador 2016) and The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America (UChicago Press, 2020). Her book of collected essays, The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self, was recently published by Milkweed Editions. She lives in Los Angeles and is Professor (Teaching) in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California.
