Colgate's Living Writers: Elizabeth Strout 10/22/09

Elizabeth Strouts most recent work, Olive Kitteridge, a novel in stories, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a New York Times Bestseller. She is the author of two previous novels, Abide With Me, a national bestseller, and Amy and Isabelle, also a New York Times Bestseller, which won the L.A. Times Award for First Fiction, The Chicago Tribunes Heartland Prize, and was short-listed for The PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as The Orange Prize in England. Her stories have appeared in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker ,O, and also in Best American Mystery Stories. She is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program at Queens College in Charlotte, N.C., and makes her home in New York City.

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Elizabeth Strout's work is achingly beautiful and hearing her read her own work is a transformative experience. The author is a lovely, humble person whose gifts are given freely to us all. I wish everyone the experience of hearing her read her ridiculously wonderful stories.