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Elizabeth Kostova
writer
Elizabeth Kostova graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress for *The Historian,* which went on to become a bestseller, and to win her the Quill Award for Debut Author of the Year and the Book Sense Award for Adult Fiction.