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Elizabeth Kostova Biography
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.
She graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress. The Historian took her ten years to write, and was inspired by the vampire stories told to her by her father, a professor of urban planning, during the year they spent in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia (where her father taught at the university) when she was seven, and as they traveled through Europe.
Her second novel The Swan Thieves was published in
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Elizabeth Kostova was born in Connecticut in She is the author of three novels, The Historian (Little, Brown, ), The Swan Thieves (Little, Brown, ), and The Shadow Land (Random House, ). The Historian was the first debut novel in U.S. publishing history to debut at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List, has been translated into 40 languages, and won Quill and Independent Bookseller Awards. The Swan Thieves was also a New York Times Bestseller and has been translated into 28 languages. Her short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in such periodicals and anthologies as The Mississippi Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Best American Poetry, The Michigan Quarterly, and Another Chicago Magazine. Kostova has taught in programs at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, the University of Michigan, Drexel University, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and Penn State-- as well as at the Sozopol Seminars on the Bulgarian Black Sea and Bear River Writers’ Conference in northern Michigan. She reads and lectures internationally and is co-founder of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, which provides competitive opportunities for
Elizabeth Kostova Biography | Author of The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova was born Elizabeth Johnson in New London, Connecticut, on August 4, According to Julie Wheelwright in the Independent (U.K.), Kostova's parents, Eleanor and David Johnson, were academics who taught at universities in New York, Indiana, Tennessee, and North Carolina. When she was seven, the author's father, an urban planning professor, was transferred to the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. The Eastern European setting, as well as trips to Vienna and Venice, made quite an impression on her. "It was the formative experience of my childhood," Kostova told Wheelwright. She told Anne Sanow of Publisher's Weekly, "We traveled around and saw beautiful places, and at one point [my father] he began to tell me a wonderfully creepy Dracula story."
Her childhood travels to Eastern Europe informed Kostova's decision to study Slavonic music after graduating from Yale University in She went to Bulgaria in on a postgraduate
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Elizabeth Kostova Biography
Author
Born Elizabeth Johnson in in New London, CT; daughter of David (a professor of urban planning) and Eleanor (a university employee) Johnson; married Gyorgi Kostov (a computer systems administrator), Education: Yale University, B.A., ; did post-graduate work in Slavonic music; University of Michigan, M.F.A.
Addresses: Agent &#x;Amy Williams, Collins McCormick, 30 Bond St., New York, NY Home &#x; Ann Arbor, MI. Office &#x;Author Mail, Little, Brown and Co., Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
Career
Worked as a writing teacher, and landscaper; writing teacher, University of Michigan; author, &#x;.
Sidelights
Elizabeth Kostova&#x;s vampire-lore bestseller, The Historian , earned a fair share of publishing-world attention and media buzz even before it appeared in bookstores in the summer of Kostova&#x;s eerie, elegant, and intricately plotted tale takes its reader on a journey across Europe&#x;s capitals and delves deep into folklore and the historical record, and for it she earned a stunning $2 million advance when the manuscript was accepted&#x;an enormous sum for a first-time novelist. She was pleasant
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