Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name Is Lucy Barton. Below, she names six books that inspired her as she wrote her new novel, Oh William!, ...

If Strout was once a master at portraying quiet lives in a big way, she now relies on easy plays for emotional connection and tidy resolution.

He's also struggling with the aftermath of As direct, funny, sad, and human as its heroine, Strout’s welcome follow-up to Olive Kitteridge portrays the cantankerous retired math teacher in old age.

There’s Lucy Barton, the protagonist of four previous Strout novels, and Olive Kitteridge ... a character who first appeared ...

Oprah Winfrey 's latest book club pick will be a story of familiar ... the lives of such favorites as the elderly and unbowed Olive Kitteridge and the renowned scribe Lucy Barton.