Elizabeth Graver

Elizabeth Graver (born 1964) is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. Graver was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1986, and her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999. She also did graduate work at Cornell University. A recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts, she has been a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston College since 1993. Married to civil writers lawyer James Pingeon, Graver is the mother of two young daughters. Graver writes character-driven psychological fiction set in a wide variety of times and places, as...