Occupation Novelist Role Writer Nationality American | Period 1993-present Movies Range of Motion Name Elizabeth Berg Awards Oprah's Book Club | |
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Born December 2, 1948 (age 75)
Saint Paul, Minnesota ( 1948-12-02 ) Books Open House, The year of pleasures, The Pull of the Moon, Durable Goods, The Art of Mending Similar People Z Berg, Anne Lamott, Anita Shreve, George Sand, Alice Hoffman Profiles | ||
Education University of Minnesota | ||
Author elizabeth berg on her writing process theater her forthcoming book on george sand
Elizabeth Berg (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist.
Berg was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, and lived in Boston prior to her residence in Chicago. She studied English at the University of Minnesota, but later ended up with a nursing degree. Her writing career started when she won an essay contest in Parents magazine. Since her debut novel in 1993, her novels have sold in large numbers and have received several awards and nominations, even though some critics have tagged them as sentimental. She won the New England Book Awards in 1997.
The three novels Durable Goods, Joy School, and True to Form form a trilogy about the 12-year-old Katie Nash, in part based on the author's own experience as a daughter in a military family. Most recently, her essay "The Pretend Knitter" appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2013.