Aronson was born Ellen Letty Konigsberg in 1943 in New York City, to Nettie (née Cherry) and Martin Königsberg, and was raised in
Midwood, Brooklyn, New York. Her older brother is writer and director
Woody Allen. Aronson comes from a Jewish family; her grandparents were from Lithuania and Austria. She was educated at
Brooklyn College and
New York University. Aronson was married to Sidney Aronson, an elementary school principal in Brooklyn who died in 2002. They had three children together, Christopher, Erika, and Alexa. ==Career==