Marjorie Ingall is the author of Mamaleh Knows Best and a contributing writer at Tablet magazine. She often writes about children’s books for the New York Times Book Review, and has written for many other magazines and newspapers, including Self, Glamour, The Jewish Forward (where she did a column called “The East Village Mamele”), Ms., New York, Health, Food & Wine, Redbook, and the late, lamented Sassy (where she was senior writer and books editor). She's also a ghostwriter. For a short while she was a news and talk show writer/producer for the Oxygen TV network, where she learned that her perkiness levels were not up to a job in daytime television.