Elizabeth Kostova






Elizabeth Kostova

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born
December 26, 1964

place of birth
New London, Connecticut, The United States

genre
Literature & Fiction


about this author

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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avg rating: 3.64 | 23,505 ratings | 4,965 reviews | 6 distinct works | 90 fans
Dracula Dracula
by Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Kostova (Contributor)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1897
481 editions
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The Historian The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
avg rating 3.64 — 19,351 ratings — published 2005
42 editions
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The Historian The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
avg rating 3.64 — 19,351 ratings — published 2005
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The Swan Thieves 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... 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... L'historienne et Drakula, Tome 1
by Elizabeth Kostova
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2005
2 editions
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"You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book."
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"When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation."
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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."
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