Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout is an American author. She is the author of Abide with Me , a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle , which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge . Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker . She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.