Elizabeth Strout has earned critical acclaim and popular praise for her perceptive, absorbing, gutsy and emotional storytelling. Her debut novel Amy and Isabelle was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. 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.