"Impossibly, her story of loss reads like a celebration of life."
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September 22, 2008
Elizabeth is currently Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is working on her third novel, with a working title of Thunderstruck Not Lightning-struck. The novel is narrated by a female athlete named Christian Wrede who trains as a weight-lifting prodigy under the tutelage of her dentist father, also named Christian Wrede.
Elizabeth McCracken, a former public librarian, is the author of four books: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, The Giant's House (a finalist for a National Book Award), Niagara Falls All Over Again (winner of the L.L. Winship /PEN New England award), and the short-story collection Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry. She is frequently a faculty member at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has received grants and awards from numerous organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Elizabeth is married to the playwright, novelist and artist, Edward Carey.