My new book, TELL ME EVERYTHING, comes out soon in both the US and the UK. Both covers are just lovely, I couldn’t be happier with them.
I’ll be on tour starting Sept 11, so please check the tour schedule and come say hello if you’re in the area!
Olive Kitteridge on the NYT Readers Top 100 Best Books
“Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” New York Times, July 18, 2024.
Olive Kitteridge on the NYT 100 Best Books List
“When this novel-in-stories won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009, it was a victory for crotchety, unapologetic women everywhere, especially ones who weren’t, as Olive herself might have put it, spring chickens... Her small-town travails instantly became stand-ins for something much bigger, even universal.”
“The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century,” New York Times, July 8, 2024.
LitHub: Writing 'Women of a Certain Age'
“The two characters that I have written who are older are Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton. It’s interesting because as I wrote them it was their character that was most important to me, and their age was simply a piece of that character. So even though I knew I was writing about older people I didn’t think about that in a way, except to make sure they were always who they were.”
Eudora Welty Prize and Lecture
I’m honored to have received the Eudora Welty Foundation Prize for 2023. and to be invited to give the Eudora Welty Prize Lecture at the Folger Library.