Elayne Klasson

About The Author

Elayne Klasson grew up on Chicago’s northside. She attended university and graduate school in the Midwest—Ohio State University and the University of Michigan, earning a Masters of Public Health and then a PhD in psychology. She lived and worked in Barbados, West Indies, for many years. Her professional career has been in academia at San Jose State University, with her research and clinical area of expertise being the severely mentally ill. A transplant to the Santa Ynez Valley in California, she is a popular lifestyle newspaper columnist there. She has also appeared on San Francisco public television as a restaurant critic. Elayne is the author of the National Jewish Book Award finalist and best-selling Love is a Rebellious Bird. She and her husband, David, have five children— between them; biological and adopted.

Books by Elayne Klasson

The Earthquake Child

A Novel

By Elayne Klasson
The Earthquake Child is the story of an adoption, told through the voices of an adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother.

How can Joshua’s behavior be explained? This question is all-consuming for his adoptive family. Joshua was relinqu...
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Love Is a Rebellious Bird

A Novel

By Elayne Klasson
Who is it we love and why do we love these people? Toward the end of her life, Judith asks these questions, trying to understand why she chose Elliot Pine to love. Why, for sixty years, did she persist in loving someone who never gave as much as he was given? In her quest for understanding, she w...
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