A Study Guide for Elizabeth Strout's "My Name is Lucy Barton"
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My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
2016
Introduction
In Elizabeth Strout's 2016 novel My Name Is Lucy Barton, a mysterious illness following routine surgery leaves a woman hospitalized for nine weeks. Desperately lonely, Lucy is surprised when her mother arrives unexpectedly at her bedside. Though they have not spoken in years, the two women reconnect through shared memories of the residents of their small town of Amgash, Illinois. As an adult Lucy remains traumatized by her childhood in extreme poverty, but her mother's refusal to discuss the particulars of what she endured leaves her alone with her troubles. Despite her mother's cool indifference to her life as a writer in New York City, Lucy and her mother share an unconditional love for each other that—like many of their trials in the past—cannot be articulated, only deeply felt.
Author Biography
Strout was born on January 6, 1956, in Portland, Maine. As a child, she lived in Maine and New Hampshire, where she began writing at an early age and developed a love for nature. Her parents were both professors: her mother taught creative writing while her father was a parasitologist. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Bates College in 1977. She went on to earn a degree in law from the Syracuse University College of Law as well as a certificate in gerontology. After moving to New York City, she became an adjunct in the English Department of Borough of Manhattan Community College. Her first short story was published at the age of twenty-six.
Her first novel, Amy & Isabelle, was published in 1998, establishing Strout as an important new voice in American literature. The novel was nominated for the Orange Prize as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award, and it won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Heartland Prize. Her second novel, Abide with Me, was published in 2006 and became a national best seller. In 2008 Strout published Olive Kitteridge, a series of connected stories that would go on to win the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel was then adapted into an Emmy Award–winning HBO miniseries starring Frances McDormand.
Media Adaptations
My Name Is Lucy Barton is available as an audiobook, narrated by Kimberly Farr and released by Random House Audio in 2016, with a run time of four hours and twelve minutes.
The novel was adapted into a play by Rona Munro, which premiered at the Bridge Theatre in London in 2018, directed by Richard Eyre and starring Laura Linney.
Strout was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bates College in 2010. Her novel The Burgess Boys was