Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer of four novels: Prep, the tale of a Massachusetts prep school; The Man of My Dreams, a coming-of-age novel examining romantic love; American Wife, fiction loosely based on the life of First Lady Laura Bush, Sisterland, a story of identical twins with psychic powers, and the forthcoming Eligible, a contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a number of short stories.
She was born August 23, 1975 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Curtis is the second of four children (three girls and a boy). Her mother is an art history teacher and librarian at a private school while her father is an investment adviser.
Curtis is of "half-Catholic, half-Jewish" background. She won Seventeen magazine's fiction contest in 1992, the summer before her senior year. She frequently vacationed in a large house near the ocean at a small Massachusetts town where a guest book chronicling her first stories a.k.a the stories of her family was kept.
She attended college in New York before transferring to Stanford. She studied Creative Writing, wrote articles for the college newspaper, and edited that paper's weekly arts magazine while in Stanford. At the time, she was also chosen as one of Glamour magazine's College Women of the Year.
She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Curtis has interviewed Michelle Obama for Time, appeared as a guest on National Public Radio's “Fresh Air” and CBS’s “Early Show.” Her novels are bestsellers and have been translated into twenty-five languages. Curtis’s non-fiction has appeared in many publications.
She was born August 23, 1975 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Curtis is the second of four children (three girls and a boy). Her mother is an art history teacher and librarian at a private school while her father is an investment adviser.Curtis is of "half-Catholic, half-Jewish" background. She won Seventeen magazine's fiction contest in 1992, the summer before her senior year. She frequently vacationed in a large house near the ocean at a small Massachusetts town where a guest book chronicling her first stories a.k.a the stories of her family was kept.
She attended college in New York before transferring to Stanford. She studied Creative Writing, wrote articles for the college newspaper, and edited that paper's weekly arts magazine while in Stanford. At the time, she was also chosen as one of Glamour magazine's College Women of the Year.
She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Curtis has interviewed Michelle Obama for Time, appeared as a guest on National Public Radio's “Fresh Air” and CBS’s “Early Show.” Her novels are bestsellers and have been translated into twenty-five languages. Curtis’s non-fiction has appeared in many publications.
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