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Elliott Holt

Born

in Washington, D.C., The United States

January 18, 1974

Website

http://elliottholt.com

Twitter

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery

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Elliott Holt was born and raised in Washington, D.C. A former copywriter who has worked at advertising agencies in Moscow, London, Paris, and New York, Holt attended the MFA program at Brooklyn College (where she won the Himan Brown award) at night while working full time in Manhattan during the day. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Slate, Time, Virginia Quarterly Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review online, The Millions, The Pushcart Prize XXXV (2011 anthology) and elsewhere. She has won fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop, The MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. In addition to winning a Pushcart Prize, she was the runner-up of the 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. Her first nove ...more

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A True Story

I wrote the "Lives" column in this weekend's New York Times magazine. This is a sad, absurd, and absolutely true story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/mag...

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Published on September 27, 2013 12:53

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Elliott Holt’s books

Average rating: 3.48 · 4,624 ratings · 720 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	You Are One of Them 3.48 avg rating — 4,613 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World Book Night 2014 ebook: An Original Collection of Stories and Essays by Booksellers, Librarians, and Authors by Chris Cander (Goodreads Author), Aaron Curtis, Kirk Farber (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fem Care 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apartments of Strangers: Excerpted from The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips (Goodreads Author), Elliott Holt (Foreword) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Elliott Holt (?)

“I have come to believe that forgiveness is the key to survival. It does no good to see everything as a struggle between opposing factions. Few things are that simple.”
― Elliott Holt, You Are One of Them

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“He was forever dwelling on his failures. He held them up to the light and examined them in minute detail, like necklaces that had tangled in a drawer.”
― Elliott Holt

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“We knew the boys weren't worthy of passing judgment on us. And yet we spent our lives chasing approval.”
― Elliott Holt, You Are One of Them

tags: approval, boys-and-girls

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