Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, as well as The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine.
Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favourite writers -- Ann Patchett I cannot get Lucy Barton out of my head * The Times * A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own -- Hilary Mantel