Abby Ellin

Abby Ellin has been contributing to The New York Times since the late 1990s. For five years she wrote the “Preludes” column in the Sunday Money and Business section and has written about everything from failed Lasik surgery to the Ms. Senior America pageant to a man who faked cancer. She is the author of Duped: Double Lives, False Identities and the Con Man I Almost Married.