Nationality American Occupation author, professor | Name Elizabeth Graver Role Writer | |
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Born July 2, 1964 (age 59) ( 1964-07-02 ) Los Angeles, California Alma mater Wesleyan University (B.A., 1986)
Washington University in St. Louis (M.F.A., 1999) Education Cornell University (1990–1992) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books The End of the Point, The honey thief, Unravelling, Have You Seen Me?, Awake | ||
Furious Fiction: Elizabeth Graver Interview
Elizabeth Graver (born 1964) is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction.
Contents
- Furious Fiction Elizabeth Graver Interview
- Life
- Awards
- Novels
- Short stories
- Anthologies selected
- References
Life
Graver was born in Los Angeles on July 2, 1964, California, and grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1986, and her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999. She also did graduate work at Cornell University. A recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts, she has been a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston College since 1993. Married to civil rights lawyer James Pingeon, Graver is the mother of two daughters; Chloe and Sylvie.
Graver writes character-driven psychological fiction set in a wide variety of times and places, as well as more experimental short fiction, and non-fiction essays on a variety of subjects. Her 2013 novel, "The End of the Point," has met with praise since its release. The novel, featured by New York Times Book Review editor Alida Becker, is set in a summer community on the coast of Massachusetts from 1942 through 1999 and is a layered meditation on place and family across half a century. Graver's first novel, Unravelling, is set in 19th-century America in the Lowell textile mills and tells the story of a fiercely independent young woman and the life she eventually fashions for herself. The Honey Thief, a contemporary novel, explores a mother/daughter relationship, as well as the fall-out of living with—and losing—a mentally ill father. In Awake, Graver uses the genetic disease Xeroderma Pigmentosum to explore a mother's relationships with her sons, her husband and, eventually, her lover; the novel is set at a camp for children with this rare disease. In a review of Unravelling in The New York Times Book Review, Benjamin DeMott wrote, "Exceptional . . . Intensely imagined, right-valued, memorable." In a Chicago Tribune review of The Honey Thief, John Gregory Brown wrote, "One of our finest writers on the grand drama of simply growing up."