![]() ![]() She would then attend Syracuse University in 1979 from where she got a Certificate in Gerontology and a law degree. ![]() She also read and memorized a lot of poetry and by the time she turned sixteen, she was submitting her stories to magazines.Īfter graduating from high school, Strout went to Bates College, where she graduated in 1977 with a degree in English. During this time, she read the biographies of many professional authors and studied the different writing styles, particularly how authors told stories. Her love for writing continued right into adolescence, where she continued to write as she thought of herself as an author from a very young age. ![]() Strout did say that she developed her affinity for the outdoors and the physical world when she was playing in the woods of New Hampshire and the rock covered coasts of Maine. In the summer months, she would be found playing outdoors often alone and sometimes with her brother. She also loved reading and spent a lot of time at the local library, particularly in the fiction section. She always loved writing since she was a child and could be found with notebooks and diaries, where she recorded her story ideas and short fiction. Strout was born in Portland but spent much of her childhood in New Hampshire and Maine. Elizabeth Strout is an American novelist known for writing short stories and literary fiction. ![]()
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