Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of 13 linked stories about a retired schoolteacher. 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, the Orange Prize in England and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have been published in several magazines including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. She is on the faculty of the M.F.A. program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina and lives in New York City.
