Strout

Elizabeth Strout is skillful in maintaining an intriguing paradox: that even in all their interconnectedness and familiarity to one another, each person in Crosby is an independent world, inherently a mystery.

Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout Ilana Teitelbaum 2010

Elizabeth Strout is skillful in maintaining an intriguing paradox: that even in all their interconnectedness and familiarity to one another, each person in Crosby is an independent world, inherently a mystery.

Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout Ilana Teitelbaum 2010

Strout is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Elizabeth Strout biography 2009

Strout is careful to limit Canderous from the very first chapter, letting us know that accidentally touching your lover's watch or necklace in the middle of something hot-and-heavy is the quickest way to have your libido deflated.

Dead To Me Jes Battis 2008

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.

Elizabeth Strout biography 2009

Bow your head in prayer; sing all the hymns, but not too loud and bold; ask after Mis 'Strout's boy; tell everybody what awful colds we've got; if you see a good chance, take your pocket handkerchief and wipe the dust off the melodeon before the meetin' begins, and get twenty-five cents out of the sittin 'room match-box in case there should be a collection. "

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

Bow your head in prayer; sing all the hymns, but not too loud and bold; ask after Mis 'Strout's boy; tell everybody what awful colds we've got; if you see a good chance, take your pocket handkerchief and wipe the dust off the melodeon before the meetin' begins, and get twenty-five cents out of the sittin 'room match-box in case there should be a collection. "

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Elizabeth Strout biography, plus links to book reviews and excerpts.

Elizabeth Strout biography 2009

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Elizabeth Strout biography 2009

And a critic saw “A Different Road” as the only story in which Strout went “overboard.”

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