Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as Oh William!, which is currently shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine. At the heart of her latest novel, Lucy by the Sea, are the deep human connections that sustain us, even as the world seems to be falling apart.