Elizabeth Strout is the author of Abide with Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick, 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 in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and lives in New York City. She is also the author of screenplay for a television movie based on Amy and Isabelle.

Titles
  •  Abide with Me
  •  Amy and Isabelle
  •  Olive Kitteridge

Awards and Honors
The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Amy and Isabelle, 1998

For complete information about the author
and her works, please visit
Elizabeth Strout's website.

Reviews

Amy and Isabelle
REVIEW BY CHARLOTTE PENCE
The delicate relationship between mothers and daughters — full of love and anger, often simultaneously, is the subject of Elizabeth Strout's stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle. When Amy, a shy 16-year-old, has an affair with her high-school math teacher, she threatens the strong relationship with her mother Isabelle, forcing them to question the boundaries of their love. (Read more at BookPage...)