"We all have a pool of inner talent from which we draw our successes in life. Alys R. Yablon's talent is insightful and sensitive writing. She is a collaborator with a deep sense of author and audience, a clean and clear writing style, and the ability to naturally adapt that writing to a wide range of subject matter. Professional and prompt, reliable and always easy to work with, Alys is sure to produce more than a shelf-full of literary treasures in her career."
– Deepak Chopra
Alys R. Yablon was raised outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where she attended private day school (The Rabbi David Silver Yeshiva Academy) and college preparatory high school (The Harrisburg Academy). She attended McGill University in Montreal, where she graduated with distinct honors in English Literature in 1997. In 1998, she earned her MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, New York City.
During her time at Columbia, Alys interned at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, where she fell in love with book publishing. In the summer of 1998, she began her career as an editorial assistant at the Free Press of Simon and Schuster, NYC, where she worked for three years and was promoted to Assistant Editor. At the Free Press, Alys acquired and published several of her own titles, and two of her books—The Modern Jewish Canon by Ruth R. Wisse and A Letter in the Scroll by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of England—won National Jewish Book Awards in 2000.
Her book reviews have been published in The Jerusalem Report, The Jerusalem Post and Forward. She collaborated on Ask the Kabala Oracle Cards with Dr. Deepak Chopra, published by Hay House in 2006. Her most recent book is Field Guide To Luck (Hay House, 2008).
Alys is available for freelance book projects worldwide. While she specializes in Jewish Studies and Spirituality titles, she is also interested in memoir, fiction, and general non-fiction of any sort.
"We all have a pool of inner talent from which we draw our successes in life. Alys R. Yablon's talent is insightful and sensitive writing. She is a collaborator with a deep sense of author and audience, a clean and clear writing style, and the ability to naturally adapt that writing to a wide range of subject matter. Professional and prompt, reliable and always easy to work with, Alys is sure to produce more than a shelf-full of literary treasures in her career." 