| 21,682 (23,068) | 1,506 | 856 | (3.84) | 49 | 0 | Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American author of fiction. She was born in Portland, Maine. After graduating from Bates College, she spent a year in Oxford, England. In 1982 she graduated with honors, and received both a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law and a Certificate of Gerontology from the Syracuse School of Social Work. Strout wrote Amy and Isabelle over the course of six or seven years, which when published was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Amy and Isabelle was made into a television movie starring Elisabeth Shue and was produced by Oprah Winfrey's studio, Harpo Films. Strout was a NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) professor at Colgate University during the Fall Semester of 2007, where she taught creative writing. She was also on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2009 Strout was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of connected short stories she wrote about a woman and her immediate family who lived on the coast of Maine. Strout also wrote The Burgess Boys in 2013 which made The New York Times Best Seller List. Ms. Strout's title, My name is Lucy Barton, made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2016. Her newest title, Anything is Possible (2017), won the 2018 Story Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Olive Kitteridge … (more) |
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Elizabeth Strout has 61 past events. (show)  Cover to Cover Book Group COVER TO COVER BOOK GROUP Anderson’s welcomes the Cover to Cover Book Group, a club that focuses on fiction books. This month’s title is Elizabeth Strout’s The Burgess Boys. Please read the book, and join our lively discussion. New members are invited to participate. Please contact Kathy with questions at: (630) 355-2665. MONDAY, MARCH 23 at 7:00 PM Anderson's Two Doors East | 111 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville
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 From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub Meeting -- "The Burgess Boys" From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub is open to the public and meets at 7pm in the Upper North Room of Boulder Book Store on the fourth Tuesday of the month. Unless otherwise noted, the author will not be present at the discussion. Please join us For June, we will be reading and discussing The burgess boys by Elizabeth Strout on Tuesday, June 24th at *7:00pm* Location: Street: 1107 Pearl St City: Boulder, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 80302 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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 ELIZABETH STROUT - The Burgess Boys Tuesday, Apr 15 at 7PM BookPeople Presents Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout speaking & signing The burgess boys in conversation with Local Austin Author AMANDA EYRE WARD Bring Your Book Club! We're raffling off a basket of soon-to-be-released books perfect for book club discussions! If your book club loved Olive Kitteridge, you won't want to miss tonight's event with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout. She's here with her new novel, now in paperback, The burgess boys, a story about two brothers who return to their childhood home to help their nephew and long-buried tensions rise to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. Invite your book club down to tonight's discussion! We're raffling off a basket of soon-to-be-released books that might be perfect picks for your club. About The burgess boys: Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan—the Burgess sibling who stayed behind—urgently calls them home. Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has gotten himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. Elizabeth Strout is the author of the New York Times bestseller Olive Kitteridge, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; the national bestseller Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine and New York City. AMANDA EYRE WARD is the author of Close Your Eyes which was named one of Kirkus' Best Books of 2011, as well as, Elle Magazine Fition Book of the Year. She started her writing career in Austin when she won the 1999 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest with her story "Miss Montana's Wedding Day."Her first novel, Sleep Toward Heaven, won the Violet Crown Book Award. She currently lives in Austin, Texas with her family. In order to have anything signed at a BookPeople event, a copy of the event book must be purchased from BookPeople. If you purchase your book from BookPeople in advance of the event, please save your receipt and present it at the event. Thank you for supporting Elizabeth Strout, Amanda Eyre Ward & your local independent bookstore!
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Canonical name | | Legal name | | Other names | | Date of birth | | Date of death | | Burial location | | Gender | | Nationality | | Country (for map) | | Birthplace | | Place of death | | Cause of death | | Places of residence | | Education | | Occupations | | Relationships | | Organizations | | Awards and honors | | Agents | | Short biography | Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is a US-American novelist and author. She is widely known for her works in literary fiction and her descriptive characterization. Born and raised in Portland, Maine, her experiences in her youth served as inspiration for her novels–the fictional "Shirley Falls, Maine" is the setting of four of her seven novels.
Strout's first novel, Amy and Isabelle (1998) met with widespread critical acclaim, became a national bestseller, and was adapted into a movie starring Elisabeth Shue. Her second novel, Abide with Me (2006), received critical acclaim but ultimately failed to be recognized to the extent of her debut novel. Two years later, Strout wrote and published Olive Kitteridge (2008), to critical and commercial success grossing nearly $25 million with over one million copies sold as of May 2017. The novel won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book was adapted into a multi Emmy Award-winning mini series and became a New York Times bestseller.
Five years later, she published The Burgess Boys (2013), which became a national bestseller. My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016) was met with international acclaim and topped the New York Times bestseller list. Lucy Barton later became the main character in Strout's 2017 novel, Anything is Possible. A sequel to Olive Kitteridge, titled Olive, Again, was published in 2019.  | |
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