Shelley Emling

Shelley Emling has written for the New York Times, USA Today, Fortune, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the Times (London), the Huffington Post, FoxNews.com, Beliefnet.com, and the Christian Science Monitor. She launched one of the first blogs for the International Herald Tribune, called Raising the Roof. She is the author of the widely praised The Fossil Hunter and lives in New Jersey.

Books Authored

Image of A Forgotten Hero: Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis
Author(s):
Shelley Emling
Genre(s):
World, World War II, Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

A Forgotten Hero: Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish Humanitarian Who Rescued 30,000 People from the Nazis

May 20, 2019
Reviewed by: 
Jonathan Power

“Shelley Emling . . . brings Bernadotte to life. Written in an unpretentious style, it portrays close up the . . . most modest of men.

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Image of Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family (MacSci)
Author(s):
Shelley Emling
Genre(s):
Historical, Scientists & Inventors, French

Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family

April 16, 2012
Reviewed by: 
Lisa Verge Higgins

“Ms. Emling’s riveting new biography reveals in page-turning prose the life-balance struggles of a true genius.”

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