Background
Elizabeth Strout was born on January 6, 1956, in Portland, Maine, United States to Richard Strout, a science professor, and Beverly (Bean) Strout, a teacher. She was raised in small towns in Maine and Durham, New Hampshire.
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After graduating from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, Elizabeth spent a year in Oxford, England, followed by studies at law school for another year.
950 Irving Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
In 1982, she graduated with honors, and received a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law.
2 Andrews Rd, Lewiston, ME 04240, USA
After graduating from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, Elizabeth spent a year in Oxford, England, followed by studies at law school for another year.
950 Irving Ave, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
In 1982, she graduated with honors, and received a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law.
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2006
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2008
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Elizabeth Strout was born on January 6, 1956, in Portland, Maine, United States to Richard Strout, a science professor, and Beverly (Bean) Strout, a teacher. She was raised in small towns in Maine and Durham, New Hampshire.
After graduating from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, Elizabeth spent a year in Oxford, England, followed by studies at law school for another year. In 1982, she graduated with honors, and received a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law.
Strout moved to New York City, where she waitressed and began developing early novels and stories to little success. She continued to write stories that were published in literary magazines, as well as in Redbook and Seventeen.
She worked for six or seven years to complete her book named Amy and Isabelle. Amy and Isabelle was adapted as a television movie, starring Elisabeth Shue and produced by Oprah Winfrey's studio, Harpo Films.
Strout was a National Endowment for the Humanities lecturer at Colgate University during the fall semester of 2007, where she taught creative writing at both the introductory and advanced levels. She was also on the faculty of the master of fine arts (MFA) program at the Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. Abide with Me was published in 2006 by Random House to further critical acclaim.
Her third book, Olive Kitteridge, was published two years later in 2008. The book featured a collection of connected short stories about a woman and her immediate family and friends on the coast of Maine. The Burgess Boys was published March 26, 2013, to further critical acclaim.
After a three-year break, she published My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016), a story about Lucy Barton, a recovering patient from an operation who reconnects with her estranged mother. The novel would go on to top the New York Times bestselling list.
She broke from her usual multi-year break in between novels to publish Anything is Possible (2017) - her sixth novel. Anything is Possible was called a "literary mean joke" due to its "hurting men and women, desperate for liberation from their wounds" in contrast to its title.
Elizabeth divides her time between New York City and Brunswick, Maine.
Elizabeth Strout is a prominent writer of fiction who received many awards.
Amy and Isabelle was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.
In 2009, the novel her Olive Kitteridge won the year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Strout collected her award from the President of Columbia University, Lee C. Bollinger. The book would become a New York Times bestseller and win the Premio Bancarella Award, at an event held in the medieval Piazza della Repubblica in Pontremoli, Italy. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award the same year.
My Name Is Lucy Barton was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Anything is Possible won The Story Prize for books published in 2017. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award the same year.
Elizabeth married Martin Dinneen on August 14, 1982. They have a daughter Zarina. Strout now is married to former Maine Attorney General James Tierney.
