She is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author of four acclaimed novels that explore the lives of small-town residents of Maine, her native state. They later divorced, and Strout married James Tierney, former Maine attorney general.
That same year, she wed attorney Martin Feinman, with whom she has one child, daughter Zarina. She earned her undergraduate degree from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and went on to earn a law degree from Syracuse University in 1982. There is a way of life up there that's disappearing." During her youth, Strout and her family also lived just across the Maine state line in Durham, New Hampshire. "Even though I've been in New York for so many years, there's something deeply familiar to me about that kind of small town. "Both my parents come from eight or nine generations of Maine people," Strout said in an interview with Alden Mudge for the Web site Bookpage.
Her father, Richard, was a science professor and Beverly, her mother, taught school. "Elizabeth Strout was born on January 6, 1956, in Portland, Maine, and she grew up in a nearby small town called Harpswell.
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