Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American novelist and short-story writer best known for deeply empathetic literary fiction set in small-town New England. Her linked novels and story collections — including Olive Kitteridge, My Name Is Lucy Barton, Anything Is Possible, and The Burgess Boys — explore ordinary lives, complicated relationships, and moral ambiguity. Olive Kitteridge won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2009) and several of her books have been adapted for screen. She divides her time between Maine and New York and has taught creative writing at the university level.