Elizabeth Kostova (Author of The Historian)

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Elizabeth Kostova

Born

in New London, Connecticut, The United States

December 26, 1964

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Elizabeth Kostova was born Elizabeth Z. Johnson in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she won the 2003 Hopwood Award for her Novel-in-Progress. She is married to a Bulgarian scholar and has taken his family name.

Her first novel, The Historian, was published in 2005 and it has become a best-seller.

In May 2007, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation was created. The Foundation helps support Bulgarian creative writing, the translation of contemporary Bulgarian literature into English, and friendship between Bulgarian authors and American and British ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 326,951 ratings · 26,673 reviews · 14 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Elizabeth Kostova (Introduction), Charles E. Robinson (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 1,733,672 ratings — published 1818 — 13321 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dracula by Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Kostova (Foreword) 4.02 avg rating — 1,385,833 ratings — published 1897 — 11568 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Historian 3.80 avg rating — 271,922 ratings — published 2005 — 200 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Swan Thieves 3.58 avg rating — 35,093 ratings — published 2010 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, Elizabeth Kostova (Introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 15,348 ratings — published 1929 — 385 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow Land 3.73 avg rating — 15,551 ratings — published 2017 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe, Elizabeth Kostova (Introduction) 4.20 avg rating — 1,281 ratings — published 1935 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Historienne et Drakula, Tome 1 3.69 avg rating — 123 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Historienne et Drakula, Tome 2 by Elizabeth Kostova, 脡velyne Jouve (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 112 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, Contemporary Michigan Literature (Made in Michigan Writer Series) by Keith Taylor (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Laura Kasischke, Steve Amick 3.49 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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L'Historienne et Drakula (2 books)
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Elizabeth Kostova,

脡velyne Jouve (Translator)

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December 2018 Runners-Up General Poll

The books that make up this poll are the Runners-Up (second place*) from the 2018 Subgenre Polls.

*Exceptions as follows:
- The January/February selection is the 4th place runner-up since at the time the top three books were read as Group Reads.
- The April selection is the 5th place runner-up since the top three books were read as Group Reads in August and the 4th place runner-up was the winner of the July Subgenre Poll.
- The September selection is the 4th place runner-up since the third place runner-up was also the third place runner-up in November and being used as the November selection.
- The October selection is the 4th place runner-up as we selected the top three books to read with no Subgenre selection.

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Which Crime, Mystery, or Thriller book would you like to read in December?

Dead Simple (Roy Grace, #1) (November) by Peter James

9 votes, 17.3%

House of Leaves (October) by Mark Z. Danielewski

8 votes, 15.4%

A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) (June) by Ngaio Marsh

7 votes, 13.5%

The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1) (August) by Laurie R. King

7 votes, 13.5%

I Am Not a Serial Killer (April) by Dan Wells

6 votes, 11.5%

Night School (Roy Grace #1) (November) by Lee Child

5 votes, 9.6%

The Shadow Land (September) by Elizabeth Kostova

4 votes, 7.7%

Conclave (July) by Robert Harris

4 votes, 7.7%

The Third Victim (Quincy & Rainie, #2) (May) by Lisa Gardner

2 votes, 3.8%

52 total votes

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