Living Writers: Elizabeth Strout

Thursday, October 22
Start Time: 4:30 PM

4:30 p.m. in Golden Auditorium, Little Hall.  Pultizer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout will read from and discuss her work.  Part of the Living Writers series organized by the English Department.

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Elizabeth Strout’s most recent work, Olive Kitteridge, a novel in stories, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a New York Times Bestseller.  She is the author of two previous novels, Abide With Me, a national bestseller, and Amy and Isabelle, also a New York Times Bestseller, which won the L.A. Times Award for First Fiction, The Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize, and was short-listed for The PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as The Orange Prize in England.  Her stories have appeared in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker ,”O,” and also in Best American Mystery Stories.  She is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program at Queens College in Charlotte, N.C., and makes her home in New York City.