Elizabeth Strout was born on January 6,1956 and is an American novelist and author.
12 Facts About Elizabeth Strout
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Elizabeth Strout is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization.
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Two years later, Elizabeth Strout wrote and published Olive Kitteridge, to critical and commercial success, grossing nearly $25 million with over one million copies sold as of May 2017.
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Elizabeth Strout was born in Portland, Maine, and was raised in small towns in Maine and Durham, New Hampshire.
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Elizabeth Strout's father was a science professor, and her mother was an English professor and taught writing in a nearby high school.
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Elizabeth Strout moved to New York City, where she waitressed and began developing early novels and stories to little success.
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Elizabeth Strout continued to write stories that were published in literary magazines, as well as in Redbook and Seventeen.
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Elizabeth Strout enrolled in Law School at Syracuse University, and practiced law for six months before a funding cut ended her job as a Syracuse legal-services advocate.
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Elizabeth 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.
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Elizabeth Strout was on the faculty of the master of fine arts program at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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The novel revisits the world of Lucy Barton, and according to Elizabeth Strout, is primarily about "how hard it is ever to know anyone, including ourselves".
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Elizabeth Strout is married to former Maine Attorney General James Tierney, lecturer in law at Harvard Law School and founding director of State AG, an educational resource on the office of state attorney general.