Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout is, to me, one of the finest chroniclers of ordinary American life writing today. Born and raised in Portland, Maine, she returns again and again to her invented town of Shirley Falls, and that rootedness gives her fiction a rare authenticity. What I love is her patience: she trains her attention on the small interior shifts of unremarkable people and finds whole worlds there. Winning the Pulitzer for that quiet, characterdriven approach feels like vindication for restraint over spectacle. Every time I read her, I come away convinced that the deepest drama lives in the everyday, and I trust her completely.

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Name (English)

Elizabeth Strout

Name (Japanese)

エリザベス・ストラウト

Reading

えりざべす・すとらうと

Born

January 6, 1956 (age 70)

Origin

Portland, Maine, United States

Occupation

novelist / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

University

Syracuse University College of Law

Awards & achievements

• 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• 2010 Bancarella Literary Prize

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.elizabethstrout.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/lizstrout
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Strout
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B6%E3%83%99%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q262712

Tags

• Maine
• novelist
• writer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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