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Ellie Herman

writer, teacher, blogger

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ5365348 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ellie Herman is an American television writer, teacher and blogger, based in Los Angeles, California.

Career

She has written for Melrose Place, My So-Called Life, Desperate Housewives, Jericho, Century City, That Was Then, Significant Others, Relativity, Chicago Hope, Doogie Howser, M.D., Northern Exposure, Gabriel's Fire, Newhart, Moon Over Miami and The Riches.

She has a teaching blog, "Gatsby In L.A.," about a teacher's journey through the classrooms of Los Angeles.

Awards

In 1989, she received an O. Henry Award for her short story "Unstable Ground".

She received a PEN Center USA Freedom to Write award in 2011 for Animo Pat Brown Charter High School's literary journal Truth.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ellie Herman” as writer, teacher, blogger. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. The account is most persuasive where Ellie, Herman and writer can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as writer, teacher, blogger. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5365348. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 2011.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ellie Herman”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ellie Herman primary sources, Ellie Herman archive and Ellie research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ellie Herman”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ellie Herman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.