Elizabeth Strout Biography
Elizabeth Strout is the author of Abide with Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine.
In 2009 she was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge (2008), a collection of connected short stories about a woman and her immediate family and friends on the coast of Maine.
Strout is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
Read Elizabeth's blog entry at BookBrowse
This biography was last updated on 07/17/2009.
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