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Elizabeth Strout

Novelist and author

Categories:Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

Elizabeth Strout is a prolific novelist and author whose work has been acclaimed both in the United States and abroad. She was born in Portland, Maine in 1956 and currently resides in New York City. Strout is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge, which was adapted into an HBO miniseries. Her other popular works include Amy and Isabelle, Abide with Me, My Name Is Lucy Barton, and The Burgess Boys. Her writing often takes the form of psychological character studies concerned with issues of family, identity, and conflicting perspectives. Strout’s writing style is praised for its attention to detail, realism, and unique insights into the complexities of human experience. Strout has received numerous honors for her writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Winship Award for Fiction, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the greatest of which is the Academy’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She has also been a National Book Award finalist, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Strout’s works have been translated into more than twenty languages, and she regularly holds book signings, lectures and classes at universities nationwide. In addition to her literary acclaim, Strout also holds a position at the Olive Kitteridge Center at Maine’s Bowdoin College. She serves as a Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the college, helping to lead classes and discussions about literature, and to teach creative writing workshops. In 2018 the school dedicated an endowed chair to her, named the Elizabeth Strout ’78 and Jane K. Sward Lectureship in Creative Writing, which serves to bring notable authors and illustrators to the school annually. Strout has earned admiration among authors, critics and readers alike, owing to her skillful exploration of the human condition in her works. Her novels are marked by their simple yet vivid prose, threaded with insight and compassion.

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Books written (8)

My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout is a story about a woman who unexpectedly visits her mother after several years, leading to a journey of self-discovery. The story takes place over ...

January 12, 2016
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Oh William!: A Novel

October 19, 2021

Oh William!: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout is an enthralling story of a middle-aged woman’s search for true love and acceptance. William, an endearing and witty dapper gent, proves to be the light of he...

October 19, 2021
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Olive Kitteridge

March 25, 2008

Olive Kitteridge is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Elizabeth Strout that tells the story of the title character and her life in a small coastal town in Maine. Through episodic stories, we follow Oli...

March 25, 2008
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Amy and Isabelle: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout is an intimate story about mother-daughter relationships. In this novel, Amy, a sixteen-year-old girl, navigates the tumultuous teenage years of strained ...

A novel of shining integrity and humor, about the bravery and hard choices of what is called ordinary life.

Peder Zane's Top 125
TIME 100: Most Influential People

Oh William!: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout is an enthralling story of a middle-aged woman’s search for true love and acceptance. William, an endearing and witty dapper gent, proves to be the light of he...

Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite writers, so the fact that Oh William! may well be my favorite of her books is a mathematical equation for joy. The depth, complexity, and love contained in these pages is a miraculous achievement.

My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout is a story about a woman who unexpectedly visits her mother after several years, leading to a journey of self-discovery. The story takes place over ...

Magnificent.

For readers looking for a captivating book about unexpected and life-changing connections, Anything Is Possible: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout is an excellent choice. This novel follows Lucy Barton, a s...

This book, this writer, are magnificent.

Peder Zane's Top 125

My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout is a story about a woman who unexpectedly visits her mother after several years, leading to a journey of self-discovery. The story takes place over ...

There is not a scintilla of sentimentality in this exquisite novel. Instead, in its careful words and vibrating silences, My Name Is Lucy Barton offers us a rare wealth of emotion, from darkest suffering to—‘I was so happy. Oh, I was happy’—simple joy.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway is a novel based on the author's experiences during the Spanish Civil War and is widely regarded as one of his finest works. The novel tells the story of Ro...

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante is a remarkable coming-of-age story that follows the lives of two girls, Elena and Lila, throughout their childhood and adolescence in a poor neighborhood in Napl...

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is an anti-war novel set during World War II. It follows the life of Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier, as he experiences the horrors of war. Told from an unrelia...

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