Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge as well as The
Burgess Boys a New York Times bestseller Abide With Me and Amy and Isabelle which won the
Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland
Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She lives
in New York City and Portland Maine.