Elizabeth Wetmore (novelist)

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Elizabeth Wetmore is an American novelist, notable for her debut 2020 novel Valentine, which she published at the age of 52 and which made it to The New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list. [1] [2]

Wetmore was born in Odessa, Texas. She left Texas at the age of 18 and never returned to live there. [3] She graduated from Iowa Writers' Workshop and eventually moved to Chicago. Before Valentine, she published short stories in various literary magazines. She names, among others, Cormac McCarthy, Paulette Jiles, and Marilynne Robinson as literary influences. [1]

Valentine is set in Texas in 1976. [2] It was translated to Dutch (by Anne Jongeling) and Russian (by Viktor Golyshev). [4]

Wetmore is married to the poet Jorge Sanchez and has a son. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Blackwell, Kathy (June 2020). "'Valentine' Writer Elizabeth Wetmore's Texas Roots". Texas Monthly .
  2. 1 2 3 Borrelli, Christopher (20 May 2020). "Chicago author's first novel, 'Valentine,' debuts as a top bestseller in a time of no book tours, no publicity. In other words, it does the near impossible". Chicago Tribune .
  3. Egan, Elisabeth (23 April 2020). "Home Is Where Her Story Was. Leaving Helped Her Find It". The New York Times .
  4. Yuzefovich, Galina (12 June 2021). ""Валентайн" — Элизабет Уэтмор продолжает традицию Фолкнера и Стейнбека в своем дебютном романе". Meduza (in Russian).