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Elizabeth Kostova

Born

in New London, Connecticut, The United States

December 26, 1964

Website

http://www.theswanthieves.com

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: 3.78 · 337,218 ratings · 27,921 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Elizabeth Kostova (Introduction), Charles E. Robinson (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 1,977,284 ratings — published 1818 — 13850 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) 4.03 avg rating — 1,525,142 ratings — published 1897 — 11845 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 — 280,353 ratings — published 2005 — 22 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 — 35,835 ratings — 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
	Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, Elizabeth Kostova (Introduction) 3.91 avg rating — 16,025 ratings — published 1929 — 12 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 — 16,284 ratings — published 2017 — 36 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 3.71 avg rating — 128 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, Évelyne Jouve (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 113 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
	Mystery Play 4.17 avg rating — 48 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 5 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: Part One of Two by Elizabeth Kostova, Justine Eyre (Narrator), Paul Michael (Narrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	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,

Évelyne Jouve (Translator)

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