January 6, 1956 -
American novelist, short story writer and academic
Author of "Amy and Isabelle" (for which she was a nominee for the Orange Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2000), "Olive Kittredge" (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2009 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010), "Snowblind" (for which she won the O. Henry Prize in 2015) and "Olive, Again" (for which she was an Oprah's Book Club Pick in 2019)