Elizabeth Kostova

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Elizabeth Kostova


Born
in New London, Connecticut, The United States
December 26, 1964

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Elizabeth Kostova was born Elizabeth Z. Johnson in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she won the 2003 Hopwood Award for her Novel-in-Progress. She is married to a Bulgarian scholar and has taken his family name.

Her first novel, The Historian, was published in 2005 and it has become a best-seller.

In May 2007, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation was created. The Foundation helps support Bulgarian creative writing, the translation of contemporary Bulgarian literature into English, and friendship between Bulgarian authors and American and British
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“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”
Elizabeth Kostovia, The Historian

“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.”
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

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