What is the title of Elizabeth Strout’s 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel?

Elizabeth Strout’s 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is Olive Kitteridge.

Set in and around the fictional coastal town of Crosby, Maine, the book consists of connected stories involving Olive Kitteridge, a sharp-tempered retired schoolteacher, and other members of the community. Together, the stories build a portrait of marriage, loneliness, aging, depression, and ordinary human connection.

Olive Kitteridge won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2009. Although its structure resembles a story collection, it is commonly classified and discussed as a novel because the recurring characters and cumulative design create a unified work.

The title character later appeared in Olive, a sequel published in 2019. Readers may confuse the book with Strout’s Amy and Isabelle or My Name Is Lucy Barton, but neither of those novels won the Pulitzer Prize.