Elizabeth Graver

Elizabeth Graver (born 1964) is an American writer and academic.

Elizabeth Graver
Born (1964-07-02) July 2, 1964
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materWesleyan University (BA)
Washington University in St. Louis (MFA)
Occupationauthor, professor

Early life and education

Graver was born in Los Angeles on July 2, 1964, and grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1986, and her M.F.A. from the Washington University in St. Louis in 1999. She also did graduate work at Cornell University.

Career

A recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, she has been a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston College since 1993.

Her 2013 novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award and has met with praise since its release. The novel, featured by The New York Times Book Review editor Alida Becker,[1] 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.

Personal life

Married to civil rights lawyer James Pingeon, Graver is the mother of two daughters.

Awards

Works

Novels

Short stories

Anthologies (selected)
  • "Two Baths": Best American Essays 1991, Cynthia Ozick, guest ed.
  • “The Mourning Door”: ''Best American Short Stories 2001, Barbara Kingsolver, guest ed.; Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards, Mary Gordon, Michael Chabon, Mona Simpson, guest eds; Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses, Bill Henderson, ed.
  • “Between”: Prize Stories 1996: The O. Henry Awards, William Abrahams, ed.
  • “The Boy Who Fell Forty Feet”: Prize Stories 1994: The O. Henry Awards," William Abrahams, ed.
  • “The Body Shop”: Best American Short Stories 1991, Alice Adams, guest ed.

References
  1. Full House ‘The End of the Point’, NYT. By Alida Becker. March 15, 2013. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
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