Author Archives: Joan Ellis
In a Midwestern high school Joan Ellis began slipping off to the make-believe world of the local movie house. At Vassar College, while spending many hours in the Juliet movie theater, she teamed up with a man with a taste for adventure. At 19 and 21 the bride and groom signed into another make-believe world: two years at the CIA. After the CIA, she raised three children, helped to build electronics company with her husband. Twenty-seven years after entering Vassar she took her senior year at Princeton University. Then the movies began to exert their old pull. Intrigued by the way film reflects our culture, she began writing reviews. Her reviews earned a Critical Writing Award from the New Jersey Press Association. Editor's note: Joan Ellis is the mother of Kevin Ellis, who serves on the board of the Vermont Journalism Trust. She receives no compensation for her reviews.
