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Elizabeth Strout

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in Portland, Maine, The United States

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Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.

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TIME: "How Elizabeth Strout Gets Inside People's Minds"

““Strout’s ability to breathe life into these non-superheroes, to create recognizable, flawed, sympathetic, interesting humans, has won her a huge following and many honors, including the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Olive Kitteridge.””

Belinda Luscombe, "How Elizabeth Strout Gets Inside People's Minds," TIME, Apr 28, 2026.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 1,133,894 ratings · 116,904 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors

	Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 277,184 ratings — published 2008 — 163 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 196,011 ratings — published 2016 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 113,398 ratings — published 2019 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) 3.98 avg rating — 103,427 ratings — published 2024 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oh William! (Amgash, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 97,632 ratings — published 2021 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucy by the Sea (Amgash, #4) 3.90 avg rating — 85,527 ratings — published 2022 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anything Is Possible (Amgash, #2) 3.79 avg rating — 82,773 ratings — published 2017 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Burgess Boys 3.66 avg rating — 72,852 ratings — published 2013 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Things We Never Say 4.18 avg rating — 43,366 ratings — published 2026 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amy and Isabelle 3.93 avg rating — 34,731 ratings — published 1998 — 101 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

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“It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it’s the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

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“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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Jane and I were discussing The Morning News Tournament of Books during one of the weekly chats and we decided to pick one of the books from their list for our March read. I'm choosing a selection of books from the long list. (You can check out details on this yearly tournament here: http://www.themorningnews.org/article...). This poll will be open for one week. Last day to vote...Saturday, February 11.

Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood

2 votes, 28.6%

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

2 votes, 28.6%

The Fireman

Joe Hill

2 votes, 28.6%

Commonwealth

Ann Patchett

1 vote, 14.3%

All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders

0 votes, 0.0%

The Queen of the Night

Alexander Chee

0 votes, 0.0%

The Girls

Emma Cline

0 votes, 0.0%

The Wonder

Emma Donoghue

0 votes, 0.0%

Margaret the First

Danielle Dutton

0 votes, 0.0%

The High Mountains of Portugal

Yann Martel

0 votes, 0.0%

7 total votes

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