Elizabeth L. Silver (born October 27, 1978) is an American writer, attorney, and creative writing teacher. She has published two novels with legal themes, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton (2013) and The Majority (2023), as well as a medical memoir, The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty (2017).
Born in New Orleans and raised in New Orleans and Dallas,[1] Silver comes from a Jewish family and is the daughter of a surgeon.[2][3] She attended Highland Park High School in Dallas and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, graduating in 2001 with a degree in English.[1][4][3] After college, she taught English as a second language in Costa Rica and worked in book publishing in New York.[5] She subsequently earned a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2004.[1]
Silver married Amir Moldovan, a rheumatologist, on May 28, 2006.[10] The couple live in Los Angeles with their two children.[11][2] In addition to her own writing projects, Silver teaches creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is the founder and director of Onward Literary, which provides mentorship to aspiring writers.[12][13][14] After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022, she wrote articles for The Guardian and Ms. magazine highlighting the inadequacy of mammograms for screening women with dense breast tissue.[15][16]
Writing
Silver has published two novels, both inspired by her legal training and experience. Her first novel, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton, centers on a woman sentenced to death for murdering her father's pregnant girlfriend. The novel explores the evolving relationship between the murderer and the victim's mother.[17][18] It has been translated into six languages.[1] Her second novel, The Majority, is a fictionalization of the life of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.[18][19][20] Additionally, she has published a medical memoir, The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty. It chronicles her experience as a parent within the medical system after her six-week-old daughter suffered an intracerebral hemorrage and was admitted to the newborn and infant critical care unit at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.[21][2]
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