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Elizabeth McCracken

Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of seven books, including The Souvenir Museum, Bowlaway, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize and long-listed for the National Book Award), and The Giant’s House (a National Book Award finalist). Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, won three Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award, and an O. Henry Prize. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.


Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition… Her Own

On the Books We Can Part With, and Those We Can’t
October 4, 2022  By Elizabeth McCracken
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Elizabeth McCracken on Savoring the Mystery of Writing

“Some mysteries must be left alone.”
April 30, 2021  By Elizabeth McCracken
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Elizabeth McCracken: Remembering Susan Kamil, Friend and Editor

"Susan was always looking out for the safety and happiness
of those she loved."
September 16, 2019  By Elizabeth McCracken
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Talking Shop With Elizabeth McCracken

"I use the Selectric to write sentences, never paragraphs."
February 6, 2019  By Elizabeth McCracken
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Elizabeth McCracken: Toward a Unified Theory of the Doughnut

In Which the Author of Bowlaway Wonders if One Can Eat a Hole
February 5, 2019  By Elizabeth McCracken
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