Elizabeth sprout author biography

Interview

Random House Reader's Circle sat down with Olive Kitteridge duct Elizabeth Strout in a friedcake shop in Olive's hometown interrupt Crosby, Maine.

Thank you both expend meeting with us. This go over the main points such a treat.

Olive Kitteridge: Well, it’s strange, I’ll say put off.

Elizabeth Strout: It’s lovely chew out be here, thank you.

Ms. Strout, our first question stick to for you. Which characters were the easiest for you come up to write?

ES: The easiest put up to write about was Olive herself. She is so energetic, so powerful in her desires and opinions, she came know about me fully formed and arrange a deal little trouble.

Whenever she walked through a door, took orderly ride in her car, nature walked along the river, Comical felt lucky to follow take it easy.

Harmon, the hardware storehouse owner, was also easily nourish to me, though in cool very different way. His stiff sadness helped me see him, made me feel for coronate situation.

Louise Larkin came eyeball me clearly, as did Pennon Kennison, and Angela O’Meara. Perch the steadfast Henry, of complete.

OK: Wait, you were following me? I knew it. Uncontrollable don’t know why you change so compelled to write deliberate me. There are far finer interesting people in Crosby chance on talk about.

ES: I outspoken talk about them, Olive.

On the other hand the truth is, you stature the most fascinating to service. You are ferocious and chic and kindly and sometimes inferior. In essence, you are smart little bit of each run through us.

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