Clare Elfman's Biography

Clare Elfman was born in New York, relocated to Los Angeles, married Milton Elfman, teacher, and until she began her writing career, taught English (Dorsey High, Palisades High and the Venice School for Teenage Expectant Mothers).

She wrote four novels (under the name Blossom Elfman) based on her experiences with pregnant teens. The first, The Girls of Huntington House, was made into a movie of the week; the second, A House for Jonnie O. was many times optioned. She was asked by ABC Motion Pictures to write a teen film (The Making of Emma) which was in pre-production when the company folded. She was asked to write a film about teen pregnancy, I Think I'm Having a Baby, which earned her an Emmy.

She left YA and entered the adult field with The Strawberry Fields of Heaven (currently written as a screenplay). Her most recent novel explores the marriage of Oscar and Constance Wilde, The Case of the Pederast's Wife, and is being adapted as a cabaret-opera.

Clare is the mother of Richard Elfman, Danny Elfman and Judith Elfman, mother-in-law to Bridget Fonda Elfman, Lauren Hynan Elfman, grandmother to Bodhi Elfman, Jenna Elfman, Louis Elfman, Mali Elfman, Lola Elfman, Oliver Henry Milton Elfman and great-grandmother to Story Elfman.

She lives in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles.