Rita Golden Gelman is an American children's author. Rita Golden Gelman is the writer of more than seventy books for kids and two adult works. Her memoir, Tales of a Female Nomad, Living at Large in the World, was released in 2001 by Crown/random House and it is still selling widely in paperback. In 1987 Gelman decided to sell all her possessions and become a citizen of the world. She has never returned to a settled life; she calls herself a modern day nomad. She still has no home and few possessions. In Tales. , she writes about the first fifteen years of living around the world, mostly in developing countries.