Strout attended Bates College, graduating with a degree in English in 1977. Her first story was published when she was twenty-six. Poetry was something she read and memorized by the age of sixteen was sending out stories to magazines. She read biographies of writers, and was already studying – on her own – the way American writers, in particular, told their stories. During the summer months of her childhood she played outdoors, either with her brother, or, more often, alone, and this is where she developed her deep and abiding love of the physical world: the seaweed covered rocks along the coast of Maine, and the woods of New Hampshire with its hidden wildflowers.ĭuring her adolescent years, Strout continued writing avidly, having conceived of herself as a writer from early on. She was also drawn to books, and spent hours of her youth in the local library lingering among the stacks of fiction. From a young age she was drawn to writing things down, keeping notebooks that recorded the quotidian details of her days. Elizabeth Strout was born in Portland, Maine, and grew up in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire.
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