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Pulitzer Prize: Olive Kitteridge | 04/21/2009 7:35 am

Elizabeth Strout Wins Pulitzer Prize for Olive Kitteridge

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Elizabeth Strout © Getty Images

Author Elizabeth Strout won quite the award yesterday.

The New York City resident earned the esteemed Pulitzer Prize Monday for fiction for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of 13 short stories about a 60-something, not-so-friendly schoolteacher in Maine.

Olive Kitteridge is Strout’s third novel. Her début, Amy and Isabelle, won the 1999 L.A. Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her second novel, Abide With Me, became a bestseller.

Strout has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, NC.

The two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction were Louise Erdrich for The Plague of Doves and All Souls by Christine Schutt. Other winners include: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed for History; American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham for Biography; Ruined by Lynn Nottage for Drama; The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin for Poetry; and Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon for General Nonfiction.

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"Olive Kitteridge" is a really fine book. And so is "Amy and Isabelle" I’m so glad that Strout won the Pulitzer; so many wonderful books go unread that one wonders why novelists keep trying. There was NO waiting list for "Olive Kitteridge" at my local library — and that’s really too bad. Maybe now this book will get the widespread attention it deserves.

By roberta wickham on 04/21/2009 8:42 am