[close] Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer who has published two novels, Prep, a tale about a New England prep school, and The Man of My Dreams, another coming-of-age novel, as well as other short stories.

Elizabeth was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second of four children (three girls and a boy) of Paul G., an investment adviser, and Elizabeth (Curtis) Sittenfeld, an art history teacher at the Seven Hills School, a private school in Cincinnati.

She attended the Seven Hills School through the eighth grade, then attended high school at Groton School, a boarding school in Groton, Massachusetts, graduating in 1993. In 1992, the summer before her senior year, she won Seventeen magazine's fiction contest.

She attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York before transferring to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. At Stanford, she studied Creative Writing, wrote articles for the college newspaper, and edited that paper's weekly arts magazine. At the time, she was also chosen as one of Glamour magazine's College Women of the Year.

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