Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout is an American novelist born in Portland, Maine, known for her empathetic literary fiction set in small towns, featuring interconnected flawed characters, with her Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge (2008) as her most notable work.[1][2] Her debut novel Amy and Isabelle (1998) became a national bestseller and was adapted into a TV movie.[1][2] She grew up in Maine and New Hampshire, studied English at Bates College, earned a law degree from Syracuse University, and now lives in New York City.[3]

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literary fiction