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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 2010.
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Elizabeth Kostova
Born
in New London, Connecticut, The United StatesDecember 26, 1964
Website
http://www.theswanthieves.com
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction
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Elizabeth Kostova was born Elizabeth Z. Johnson in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she won the 2003 Hopwood Award for her Novel-in-Progress. She is married to a Bulgarian scholar and has taken his family name.
Her first novel, The Historian, was published in 2005 and it has become a best-seller.
In May 2007, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation was created. The Foundation helps support Bulgarian creative writing, the translation of contemporary Bulgarian literature into English, and friendship between Bulgarian authors and American and British Elizabeth Kostova was born Elizabeth Z. Johnson in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the
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Elizabeth Kostova
American writer (born 1964)
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novelThe Historian.
Early life
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova was born Elizabeth Johnson in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University[1] and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she won the 2003 Hopwood Award for her Novel-in-Progress.[2]
She is married to a Bulgarian IT professional and has taken his family name.[citation needed] Her sister, Victoria Johnson, is also an author.[3]
The Historian
Kostova's interest in the Dracula legend began with the stories her father told her about the vampire when she was a child.[4] The family lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1972, while her father was teaching at a local university; during that year, the family traveled across Europe. According to Kostova, "It was the fo
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