'The landscape and the light'

An old postcard from Brunswick, where Bowdoin College and Elizabeth Strout (when she’s not in her New York City home) reside.

“I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.’’

— Elizabeth Strout, novelist (Olive Kittridge, for which she won a Pulitzer. is her best-known book).