Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Orange Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.
“Perceptive, deeply empathetic . . . Olive is the axis around which
these thirteen complex, relentlessly human narratives spin
themselves into Elizabeth Strout’s unforgettable novel in
stories.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll
never forget her. . . . [Elizabeth Strout] constructs her stories
with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense
emotion. . . . Glorious, powerful stuff.”—USA Today
“Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life
force, a red-blooded original. When she’s not onstage, we look
forward to her return. The book is a page-turner because of
her.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Olive Kitteridge still lingers in memory like a treasured
photograph.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Rarely does a story collection pack such a gutsy emotional
punch.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force. . . . [She]
makes us experience not only the terrors of change but also the
terrifying hope that change can bring: she plunges us into these
churning waters and we come up gasping for air.”—The New Yorker
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