American · b. 1956
Elizabeth Strout won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with "Olive Kitteridge," linked stories about a retired schoolteacher in coastal Maine. The American author has returned to Olive and to Lucy Barton, another of her recurring characters, across multiple books, creating a fictional universe of interconnected lives. "Oh William!" and "Tell Me Everything" continue this project. Strout's prose achieves intensity through apparent simplicity, finding in small-town Maine the full range of human experience.