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Elizabeth Strout


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Elizabeth 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 and the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and lives in New York City.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
Olive
   1. Olive Kitteridge (2008)
   2. Olive, Again (2019)
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Amgash
   1. My Name is Lucy Barton (2016)
   2. Anything Is Possible (2017)
   3. Oh William! (2021)
   4. Lucy by the Sea (2022)
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Novels
   Amy and Isabelle (1998)
   Abide with Me (2005)
   The Burgess Boys (2013)
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Anthologies edited
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Omnibus editions
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Series contributed to
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Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2000) : Amy and Isabelle
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2000) : Amy and Isabelle
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2000) : Amy and Isabelle
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (2009) : Olive Kitteridge
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2016) : My Name is Lucy Barton
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Book nominee (2018) : My Name is Lucy Barton
Rathbone Folio Prize Best Book nominee (2018) : Anything Is Possible


Elizabeth Strout recommends
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Can You See the Wind? (2022)
Beverly Gologorsky
"Gologorsky looks straight into the face of class in this country, capturing the reverberations across generations of who really fight our wars, who really serves our coffee, who really gets up in the dark to wipe the diners' counters clean."
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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket (2021)
Hilma Wolitzer
"Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny . Breathtaking."
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All Adults Here (2020)
Emma Straub
"A totally engaging and smart book about the absolutely marvelous messiness of what makes up family; a wonderful book."
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Barker House (2020)
David Moloney
"HERE is a voice to listen to! Moloney's voice is as true as a voice can be. Concise, with the right details rendered perfectly, these sentences come to the reader with marvelous straight forwardness, clean as a bone."
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Writers & Lovers (2020)
Lily King
"Gorgeous!"
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Apeirogon (2020)
Colum McCann
"This is a wondrous book. In an accretion of splendid detail, McCann writes with an amazing abundance of humanity as he describes the age-old story of inhumanity to man. The effect is absolutely staggering—it will bring you to your knees. Writing at the top of his game, McCann brings us a book that we sorely need. It left me hopeful; this is its gift. What a read!"

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