Elizabeth Graver

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

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[]

• National Book Award in Fiction Long List for The End of the Point, 2013
• MacDowell Colony Fellowships, 1997, 2009, 2011, 2012
• Yaddo Foundation Fellowship, 2016
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1992
• Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1991
• 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for Have You Seen Me? (Judge: Richard Ford)
• 1991 Cohen Award Ploughshares Magazine, for “The Mourning Door”
• Her work has been widely anthologized, including in: Best American Short Stories (1991, 2001), Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards (1994, 1996, 2001), The Pushcart Prize Anthology (2001), and Best American Essays (1998)

Works[]

Novels[]

• The End of the Point (2013)
• Awake (2005)
• The Honey Thief (2000)
• Unravelling (1999)

Short stories[]

• Have You Seen Me?'' (1991)

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[]

External links[]

• ElizabethGraver.com. Author's Website
• National Book Award Fiction Long List 2013
• Boston Globe Review, The End of the Point
• New York Times Review, The End of the Point
• Here and Now with Robin Young: NPR Interview
• Judicial Review, March 2013: Discussing The Point of Elizabeth Graver's 'The End of the Point'
• Boston College Front Row: Graver on Researching The End of the Point (video)
• Leonard Lopate Show, NPR Interview, 3/5/13
• Washingtonpost.com Interview
• Boston College Front Row, 2004. Graver reads from Awake
• The Book Show #1291, with Joe Donahue WAMC/NPR
• New York Times Book Review: Unravelling
• *New York Times Book Review: The Honey Thief
• "Walker Evans, Kitchen Wall, Alabama Farmstead, 1936"
• https://www.pshares.org/issues/fall-2001/elizabeth-graver-and-adrian-c-louis-cohen-awards
• "Paper Cuts", New York Times
• "Physiological Form Meets Psychological Space: Elizabeth Graver's Four-Dimensional Stories," by Jacob M. Appel, Fiction Writers Review
• “Co rona (of a star etc.)” Harvard Review April 3 2020