Pulitzer Prize winner   Elizabeth Strout teaches in  the MFA program at Queens.

Charlotte, N.C. (April 20, 2009) – Elizabeth Strout – an award-winning, best-selling author who is also on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte’s Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program – has just received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “Olive Kitteridge.” The book is a series of 13 interlinked short stories centering around one character and was also nominated for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award.

She will speak on campus on Nov. 19 and the event will be open to the public.

“Strout has always been central to our program,” said Fred Leebron, director of Queens’ MFA program. “She was a primary advisor to us during the initial planning of the workshop, she teaches in the program every year, and her work with students is inspiring and exemplary. In short, it has been an honor to work with her.”

Strout’s other works include “Abide with Me,” a national best-seller and Book Sense Pick, and “Amy and Isabelle,” which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner 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.

Strout lives in New York City when she’s not teaching at Queens.

For more information on the MFA program, click here.

Queens University of Charlotte is a private, co-ed, Presbyterian-affiliated comprehensive university with a commitment to both liberal arts and professional studies. Located in the heart of historic Charlotte, Queens serves approximately 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students through its College of Arts and Sciences, the McColl School of Business, the Presbyterian School of Nursing, the Wayland H. Cato, Jr. School of Education, the School of Communication and Hayworth College for adult and evening programs.

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