Elise Blackwell

Infobox Writer


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name = Elise Blackwell
birthdate = birth date and age|1964|7|18
birthplace = Austin, Texas
occupation = Novelist
nationality = American

Elise Blackwell (born July 18, 1964) is an American novelist, born in Austin, Texas. The daughter of botanists, Blackwell was educated at Louisiana State University before entering the Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Irvine, where she studied with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Michael Chabon. Blackwell's first novel, "Hunger", was published in 2003 by Little Brown, a division of Time Warner. The book won praise from Nobel Prize Laureate J.M. Coetzee and was selected by the "L.A. Times" and "Sydney Morning Herald" as a Notable Book for that year. "Hunger" is a historical dramatization of events surrounding the Siege of Leningrad. Blackwell has taught creative writing at Boise State University and the University of South Carolina. Blackwell's second novel, "The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish" was published in April 2007 by Unbridled Books, while her third novel, "Grub", was published by Toby Press in September 2007.