Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.
Elizabeth Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and an Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she won the 2003 Hopwood Award for her Novel-in-Progress.
Kostova's interest in the Dracula legend began with the st...
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Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.
Elizabeth Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and an Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she won the 2003 Hopwood Award for her Novel-in-Progress.
Kostova's interest in the Dracula legend began with the stories her father told her about the vampire when she was a child. The family lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1972, while her father was teaching at a local university; during that year, the family traveled across Europe. According to Kostova, "It was the formative experience of my childhood." She "was fascinated by [her father's Dracula stories] because they were ... from history in a way, even though they weren't about real history, but I heard them in these beautiful historic places." Kostova's interest in books and libraries began early as...
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