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Elizabeth McCracken


USA flag (b.1966)
Wife of Edward Carey

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of five books: Heres Your Hat Whats Your Hurry (stories), the novels The Giants House and Niagara Falls All Over Again, the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, and the forthcoming Thunderstruck & Other Stories.  Shes received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Liguria Study Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

She has taught creative writing at Western Michigan University, the University of Oregon, the University of Houston, and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.  She holds the James A. Michener Chair in Fiction at the University of Texas, Austin, and boy are her arms tired.
 

Awards: B&N (1996)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
December 2025

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A Long Game
 
Novels
   The Giant's House (1996)
   Niagara Falls All Over Again (2001)
   Bowlaway (2019)
   The Hero of This Book (2022)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Elizabeth McCracken
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The Best American Short Stories 2022 (2022)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Andrew Sean Greer
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The Best American Short Stories 2020 (2020)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Cutting Edge (2019)
New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
edited by
Joyce Carol Oates

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Awards
1996 Granta Best of Young American Novelists
1996 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction : The Giant's House

Award nominations
2021 National Book Award for Fiction (longlist) : The Souvenir Museum
1996 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : The Giant's House


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