Ellen Gable
Catholic novelist, speaker, VP of the Catholic Writers Guild
Ellen Gable (born May 5, 1959) is an American author of Catholic fiction.
Gable, who publishes under her maiden name, was born in Camden, New Jersey, and is a native of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area who moved to Arnprior, Ontario after marrying Canadian artist, musician and arts educator James Hrkach in 1982.
Her debut novel, Emily's Hope, won an Honorable Mention Award in Religious Fiction in the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Her second novel, In Name Only, was released in 2009 and received the gold medal for Religious Fiction in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards. In Name Only has been an Amazon Kindle #1 Bestseller. Her third novel, Stealing Jenny, was published in 2011. It also reached #1 on Amazon Kindle's Religious & Liturgical Drama category in November 2011 and June/July, 2012. Dancing on Friday, was published in 2013.
A Subtle Grace, was published in 2014. A sequel to In Name Only, it is set in 1896 in Philadelphia and tells of the romantic travails of the eldest daughter of a large Catholic family.
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