Elizabeth McCracken

Quick Facts

Full Name	Elizabeth McCracken
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Sep 16, 1966(1966-09-16)
Age	58
Birthplace	Brighton
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Virgo

Elizabeth McCracken Biography

Elizabeth McCracken is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on September 16, 1966 in Brighton, Massachusetts, United States. Awarded the prestigious award for fiction, she is best famous as the author of There’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry The Giant’s House The Giant’s House, The Giant’s House, and Niagara Falls All Over Again. She also wrote a memoir called An Exact Replica of My Dream.

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McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts, earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Boston University, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, and an M.S. in Library Science from Drexel University. In 2008 and 2009, McCracken lived in Cambridge, MA, where she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is married to the novelist Edward Carey. They have a son, August George Carey Harvey, and a daughter, Matilda Libby Mary Harvey; an earlier child died before birth, an experience which formed the basis of McCracken’s memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination.

In 2014, she published her first collection of stories in 20 years: Thunderstruck & Other Stories. Among the nine stories is a tale about a successful documentary filmmaker who has to face a famous subject he manipulated and betrayed; one about a young scholar who is mourning his wife; and another about a grocery store manager who obsesses about a woman’s disappearance. Sept 2014 in New York Times. Her short story, “Hungry”, was longlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the richest prize in the world for a single short story. On March 4, 2015, McCracken was named the winner of The Story Prize for Thunderstruck & Other Stories and received the top prize of $20,000.

She has two kids with her fellow author Edward Carey and has a brother called Harry.

Elizabeth McCracken Net Worth

Elizabeth McCracken is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elizabeth McCracken 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After completing an undergraduate and graduate program in English at Boston University, she attended the renowned University of Iowa’s MFA program. Her debut novel was published in 1993.

She has been a teacher her classes at Western Michigan University and the University of Oregon. Her short collection of stories Thunderstruck received The 2015 Story Prize.

Elizabeth McCracken (born 1966) is an American author. She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award.

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Elizabeth Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Elizabeth McCracken celebrates birthday on September 16 of every year.