Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Reads at Queens

Queens University of Charlotte professor Elizabeth Strout was awarded the Pulitzer Prize last spring for her short story collection Olive Kitteridge. Strout will read from her collection in a special event at Queens on Thursday, Nov. 19 at Dana Auditorium. The event begins at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

The collection of 13 linked stories that compile Olive Kitteridge center around a teacher, Olive Kitteridge, and her neighbors living along the coast of Maine.

Strout is a faculty member for Queens' low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program and lives in New York City. She is also the author of Abide with Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick, and Amy and Isabelle which won the L.A. Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Orange Prize in England. Her short fiction has been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine.

Queens University of Charlotte Dana Auditorium
1900 Selwyn Ave.
Charlotte, NC 28274