Elizabeth Strout: Sustenance 1/6

“My mother always wanted to be a writer and my mother loves literature and my mother is also a fabulous storyteller, so all those things connected. She was always handing me the right book at the right time.”

Elizabeth Strout won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Literature, she says, works for her the way religion works for others. It teaches us about ourselves and other people ... and how to live. She grew up in Maine, is currently is on the MFA faculty of Queens University in Charlotte, NC, and lives with her family in New York City.