Elizabeth Crook

Elizabeth Crook was born in Houston in 1959. She lived in Nacogdoches and then San Marcos, Texas with her parents and brother and sister until 1966 when the family moved to Washington D.C., where her father was director of VISTA for Lyndon Johnson. Two years later her father was appointed Ambassador to Australia and the family moved to Canberra. When they returned to Texas Elizabeth attended public schools in San Marcos, graduating from San Marcos High School in 1977. She attended Baylor University for two years and graduated from Rice University in 1982. She has written four novels: THE RAVEN'S BRIDE and PROMISED LANDS were published by Doubleday and then reissued by SMU Press as part of the Southwest Life and Letters series. THE NIGHT JOURNAL was published by Viking/Penguin in 2006 and reissued in paperback by Penguin. MONDAY, MONDAY will be published by Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May of 2014. Elizabeth has written for periodicals such as Texas Monthly and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and has served on the council of the Texas Institute of Letters. She is a member of Western Writers of America and The Texas Philosophical Society, and was selected the honored writer for 2006 Texas Writers' Month. Her first novel, The Raven's Bride, was the 2006 Texas Reads: One Book One Texas selection. The Night Journal was awarded the 2007 Spur award for Best Long Novel of the West and the 2007 Willa Literary Award for Historical Fiction. Elizabeth currently lives in Austin with her husband and two children.