“Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” New York Times, July 18, 2024.
Olive Kitteridge on the NYT 100 Best Books List
“When this novel-in-stories won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009, it was a victory for crotchety, unapologetic women everywhere, especially ones who weren’t, as Olive herself might have put it, spring chickens... Her small-town travails instantly became stand-ins for something much bigger, even universal.”
“The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” New York Times, July 8, 2024.
Eudora Welty Prize and Lecture
I’m honored to have received the Eudora Welty Foundation Prize for 2023. and to be invited to give the Eudora Welty Prize Lecture at the Folger Library.
Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlist for Fiction
Honored that Lucy by the Sea has been shortlisted for this year's Rathbones Folio Prize for fiction! Congratulations to the nominees in all three categories.
The Booker Prize: Elizabeth Strout answers readers' questions about 'Oh William!'
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.