Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge , as well as The Burgess Boys , a New York Times bestseller, Abide With Me 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. She lives in New York City and Portland, Maine.