Ethel Dimont is an author and lecturer. In 1962 she helped her husband Max Dimont write Jews, God and History, which received critical acclaim and has sold more than 2 million copies which the Los Angeles Times praised as, "Unquestionably the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language." Because of the success of the book, Ethel and Max, have traveled the world over, meeting heads of state such as David Ben Gurion, Menachem Begin, and Martin Buber. In 1972 a car accident changed the focus of Ethel’s life. An improperly diagnosed closed head injury caused a slow erosion of her health. In her new book she takes you through the struggles of living with a misdiagnosis, to finding the correct information that can help deal with the recovery of a head injury." Ethel moved to St. Louis, Missouri after her marriage to Max in 1946. Her daughter, son-in-law, three grandsons, two great grand-daughters and one great grandson, still live in New York City area.