1. She was born January 6, 1956.
2. She grew up in New Hampshire and Maine.
3. She graduated from Bates College.
4. She received a law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law.
5. Her first story was published in New Letters magazine in 1982.
6. Her first novel, Amy and Isabelle, was shorlisted for the Orange Prize and nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award; the novel was made into a TV movie starring Elisabeth Shue (produced by Harpo).
7. Her second novel, Abide with Me, was published in 2006.
8. She won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her third book, Olive Kitteridge; it is one of our possible books for 2010.
9. She has taught at Colgate and Queens University of Charlotte.
Have you read any of her stories/books?
