Elizabeth Strout is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American fiction author of short stories and novels. She was born on January 6, 1956, and raised in New Hampshire and Maine.

Strout received a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2009 for her book Olive Kitteridge. The book is a collection of short stories about a woman and her family and friends who live on the coast of Maine. Prior to Olive Kitteridge, Strout wrote two novels, Amy and Isabelle and Abide With Me. Her short stories have been published in several magazines, including O, The Oprah Magazine and The New Yorker.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/elizabeth_strout/index.html?8qa&scp=1-spot&sq=elizabeth+strout&st=nyt http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/2009-Fiction