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Elizabeth Strout (born January 6, 1956) is an American author of fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for ''Olive Kitteridge'', a collection of connected short stories about a woman and her immediate family and friends on the coast of Maine.〔Thompson, Bob.(Fiction Pulitzer Prize Winner Elizabeth Strout Talks Writing Olive Kitteridge. )''The Washington Post'', August 4, 2009.〕 The book has been adapted into an HBO miniseries that won six awards at the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards.〔(CNN )〕 ==Biography== Strout was born in Portland, Maine,〔Birnbaum, Robert.(Elizabeth Strout. ) ''The Morning News'', August 26, 2008.〕 and was raised in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire. Her father was a science professor, and her mother taught high school. After graduating from Bates College, she spent a year in Oxford, England, followed by studies at law school for another year. In 1982 she graduated with honors, and received both a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law and a Certificate of Gerontology from the Syracuse School of Social Work. That year her first story was published in ''New Letters'' magazine. Strout moved to New York City. She continued to write stories that were published in literary magazines, as well as in ''Redbook'' and ''Seventeen''. She worked for six or seven years to complete her book, ''Amy and Isabelle'', which when published was shortlisted for the 2000 Orange Prize and nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.〔 ''Amy and Isabelle'' was adapted as a television movie, starring Elisabeth Shue and produced by Oprah Winfrey's studio, Harpo Films. Strout was a NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) professor at Colgate University during the Fall Semester of 2007, where she taught creative writing at both the introductory and advanced levels. She was also on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2009 Strout was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for ''Olive Kitteridge'', a collection of connected short stories about a woman and her immediate family and friends on the coast of Maine.〔 In June 2010, Italian booksellers voted ''Olive Kitteridge'' and Strout as the winner of the ''Premio Bancarella'' award, at an event held in the medieval Piazza della Repubblica in Pontremoli, Italy. Her most recent novel, ''The Burgess Boys'', was published March 26, 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Strout」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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