Elizabeth Wetmore
Age: 52. Residence: Chicago. Book: Valentine (Harper, March 2020), a novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of a West Texas oil town in the 1970s. Agent: Samantha Shea of Georges Borchardt, Inc. Editor: Emily Griffin.
DO SOMETHING beautiful. These words, which appear in the final frame of George Saunders’s 2015 short film, “On Story,” have graced the wall behind my, I set out to tell my characters’ stories, to bear witness to their lives and their quiet, flawed, often accidental acts of courage. But mostly I wanted to do something beautiful.