Elizabeth Kostova
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born
December 26, 1964
place of birth
New London, Connecticut, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction
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Elizabeth Johnson Kostova is an American author.
Elizabeth Johnson is a graduate of Yale University. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress.
Her first novel, The Historian, was published in 2005, and it has become a best-seller.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Kostova avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1897 481 editions |
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova avg rating 3.64 — 19,351 ratings — published 2005 42 editions |
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova avg rating 3.64 — 19,351 ratings — published 2005 42 editions |
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The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 2009 5 editions |
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L'Historienne et Drakula, Tome 2 by Elizabeth Kostova avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 2005 2 editions |
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L'historienne et Drakula, Tome 1 by Elizabeth Kostova avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2005 2 editions |
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The Swan Thieves
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"You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book."
— Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)
— Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)
"When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation."
— Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)
— Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)
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"The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime."
— Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)
— Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian)
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