Ellen Wayland-Smith is an associate professor of writing at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table (Picador 2016) and The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, April 2020). She reviews essays and memoir for The Los Angeles Review of Books.