Ellen T. White is a freelance feature writer and reviewer for newspapers and magazines - The Key West Citizen, among them - as well as for a variety of cultural institutions such as the Carnegie Corporation, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New York City Ballet. She is the former managing editor of The New York Public Library, where she launched Bookmark, their quarterly magazine. She is the author of Simply Irresistible: Unleash Your Inner Siren and Mesmerize Men with Lessons from Some of the Most Famous and Infamous Women in History (Running Press), a cheeky how-to that draws inspiration from the lives of the world's great romantic women, past and present. She serves on the Board of Friends of the Key West Library, and lives with her husband Paul, a flyfishing guide, in Key West and on the East End of Long Island.