Elizabeth McCracken

About

Elizabeth McCracken grew up in Boston and Portland and now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She
was in Granta magazines top twenty list of Best of Young American Novelists and her recent novel The Giant’s House was published to much acclaim. The New Yorker said, “Although she is as original a writer as they come, her novel can be placed in a vaguely Southern tradition, which combines Christian sentiment, with an air of rueful secularism.” Ms. McCracken says that as a result of her visit to Carson McCullers’s Georgia hometown she has developed the habit of growling, “Good mawnin’, Baby Doll!,” like Norman Rothschild, one of the “lovely” people she met there. But she says her biggest tie to the South
is probably the novelist Ann Patchett, “my dear friend and reader. Also, I am an Elvis fan, and have been to Graceland five times.”
(October/November Issue, 1996)