Elizabeth Strout weaves deceptively simple stories of small-town America that explore human relationships and reveal universal truths. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Olive Kitteridge" to "My name is Lucy Barton", Strout has a flair for creating authentic, uncannily lifelike protagonists.
Elizabeth Strout: 'There’s something emotionally truthful about my characters'
FRANCE 24 English
September 19, 2017
“I am always interested in the fact that in small communities people believe they know each other, and yet they know only a sliver of that person. It fascinates me to think of the point of view of every person being different.”
Waterstones bookshops in the UK has selected Olive Kitteridge as their Fiction Book of the Month for August. They invited me to write a little something on writing Olive Kitteridge for their blog. So there it is!
“This is a very exciting year. The range of books is broad and the quality extremely high.... From the historical to the contemporary, the satirical to the polemical, the novels in this list come from both established writers and new voices. The writing is uniformly fresh, energetic and important. It is a longlist to be relished.”
Honored that My Name Is Lucy Barton has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Why Fiction Matters with Liz Strout and Andre Dubus III
Newburyport Literary Festival
May 4, 2016
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A thoughtful roundtable discussion of my latest novel, My Name Is Lucy Barton, from The Diane Rehm Show: Readers Review. With Diane Rehm, Aminatta Forna, Adam Goodheart, and Barrie Hardymon. Audio and transcript available. Thank you to all!
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