Elizabeth Strout on Creating a Quietly Strong Protagonist
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After creating literary immortals like Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout is back with her eleventh book, which contains a multitude of new characters, centered around Artie Dam, 57, a self-deprecating high school teacher beloved by his students who seems woven into his small-town community, but who, as the book begins, feels so lonely he is suicidal.
What motivated you to create this new character, Artie Dam? I asked Strout. “Artie arr
What motivated you to create this new character, Artie Dam? I asked Strout. “Artie arr
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