Elizabeth Strout
| Elizabeth Strout | |
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Strout at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
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| Born | Elizabeth Strout January 6, 1956 Portland, Maine |
| Occupation |
Novelist Academic |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Bates College Syracuse University |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Notable works |
Amy and Isabelle Abide with Me Olive Kitteridge The Burgess Boys My Name Is Lucy Barton |
| Notable awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 6 Emmy Awards Premio Bancarella Faulkner Award Bailey's Award |
| Spouse | James Tierney |
| Website | |
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Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American novelist, academic, and short story writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of connected short stories about a woman and her immediate family and friends on the coast of Maine. The book has been adapted into an HBO miniseries that won six awards at the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards.
She has written multiple award winning novels over her early career that include, Amy and Isabelle (1998), Abide with Me (2006), Olive Kitteridge (2008), The Burgess Boys (2013), and most recently, My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016). Her book, Amy and Isabelle was adapted as a television movie, starring Elisabeth Shue and produced by Oprah Winfrey's studio, Harpo Films.
Strout was born in Portland, Maine, and was raised in small towns in Maine and Durham, New Hampshire. Her father was a science professor, and her mother taught in a nearby high school.
Strout was interviewed by Terry Gross in January 2016 wherein she said:
″I grew up in Durham, N.H. My parents were both professors at the university. My father was in the sciences. He was a parasitologist. He had his own lab that he ran. And my mother taught writing in the english department, and she also taught writing in the high school. And we also lived in Maine on a dirt road where many of my relatives lived along that same dirt road.″
After graduating from Bates College, she spent a year in Oxford, England, followed by studies at law school for another year. In 1982, she graduated with honors, and received a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law. That year her first story was published in New Letters magazine.
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