'Two Baths': Best American Essays 1991, Cynthia Ozick, guest ed.Jones, B-Sides Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites 2021, John Plotz, ed. ”The Mourning Door” by Graver, Elizabeth.Have You Seen Me? (University of Pittsburgh Press 1991) Drue Heinz Literature Prize (Judge: Richard Ford).The End of the Point (HarperCollins 2013).Kantika (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co.Married to prisoners' rights lawyer James Pingeon, Graver is the mother of two daughters. Benjamin Demott, reviewing it for The New York Times, wrote that Unravelling 'creates a home-on-the-margins beyond cant-a kind of exiles' utopia, intensely imagined, right-valued, memorable.' The Honey Thief, a contemporary novel exploring a mother-daughter relationship, was reviewed by Katherine Weber for The New York Times., who described it as a narrative in which 'neither resolution nor redemption is guaranteed-or even, necessarily, hoped for.' 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 novel, featured by The New York Times Book Review editor Alida Becker, 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 2013 novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award and has met with praise since its release. She also did graduate work at Cornell University.Ī 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. from Wesleyan University in 1986, and her M.F.A. Graver was born in Los Angeles on July 2, 1964, and grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Louis ( MFA)Įlizabeth Graver (born 1964) is an American writer and academic.

Unravelling by Elizabeth Graver