Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize winning American author of the book Olive Kitteridge. Elizabeth won the much coveted award in 2009 and her fans are without any doubt ecstatic.
I am going to cover a brief history, wiki, resume, and bio information of Elizabeth Strout for those of you who just discovered this brilliantly talented writer.
Elizabeth was born in New Hampshire and she was raised in a handful of small towns and villages spread over New Hampshire and Maine. I bet that would come across sounding idyllic. Elizabeth completed her college from Bates College after which she spend a year or so in Oxford, England.
Hereafter she changed streams and moved into Law school and graduated with honors. Interestingly she recieved a Law degree from Syracuse as well as a Gerontology from the Syracuse school of Social Work.
Also, by then Elizabeth has found her natural calling, she had her first story published in the New Letters Magazine. By now, a star has born.
Perhaps Elizabeth saw a bright future in the line of creative arts and letters and for this reason her next stop in life was, guess what, New York City. This is not surprising at all. Here she wrote stories that continued to find a place in various literary magazines including teen staple like Seventeen.
But now Elizabeth wanted to move to bigger higher stuff so it was time to write a tome. Elizabeth completed Amy and Isabelle which got not only published but was also shortlisted for the 2000 PEN Faulkner award for best fiction.
Elizabeth also served some time as a Professor in Colgate University for both advanced and intermediate level of literature studies.
Finally she hit big time when her novella Olive Kitteridge, which was penned and published in 2008 was selected as the Pulitzer winner for short stories.
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