A mother and daughter attempt to reconcile their estranged relationship in Elizabeth Strout’s Booker Prize 2016 longlisted novel
Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout has been nominated for the Booker Prize twice
Strout was longlisted in 2016 and shortlisted in 2022. She is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as 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. Strout has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize.
Before writing, she had a brief career in the law. Many of her novels have been bestsellers: Olive Kitteridge has sold more than one million copies and was made into an Emmy-winning television mini-series. She has written five novels featuring the character Lucy Barton, the third of which – Oh William! – was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine.
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