Elizabeth Arthur

Elizabeth Arthur (born November 15, 1953 in New York ) is an American writer .

She was born in New York State as the daughter of two writers, Robert Arthur and Joan Vaczek Arthur . In 1967 she moved to Vermont with her family . She began her studies in 1971, but dropped out in 1973 to teach at the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming . Even as a schoolgirl, she had spent a lot of time in nature reserves and reserves. There she met her first husband, they married in 1974 and then moved to British Columbia , Canada, where they lived until 1979. In British Columbia they both bought a small island and built their own house.

In 1976 Elizabeth Arthur resumed her English studies and graduated in 1978. In 1979 she separated from her husband and moved back to Vermont , where in 1980 she was offered membership in the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference .

In 1982 she married Steven Bauer; her husband is also a writer. They moved to Ohio and soon on to rural Indiana where they bought a Victorian farmhouse. Elizabeth won a National Endowment for the Arts scholarship , allowing her to write her first two novels in 1983 and 1986. During this time, she taught creative writing at the universities of Cincinnati and Miami . In 1988 she published her third novel.

In 1990, Elizabeth Arthur was the only female writer to participate in the Antarctic Artists and Writers program. Her novel Eislandfahrt was written not least because of her experiences in the Antarctic .

Works

• Bad Guys , Macmillan, London 1987, ISBN 0-333-44536-8
• Beyond the mountain , Harper & Row, New York 1983, ISBN 0-06-015189-7
• Binding spell , Macmillan, London 1988, ISBN 0-333-48622-6
• Eislandfahrt. Roman , Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1997, ISBN 3-596-13752-7
• Island Sojourn , Harper & Row, New York 1980, ISBN 0-06-010156-3
• Looking for the Klondike Stone , Knopf, New York 1993, ISBN 0-679-41894-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Elizabeth Arthur in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.elizabetharthur.org/