Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop was born in New York City in 1979. She attended Harvard University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 2001, with a B.A. in English and American Literature and Language. She earned her M.F.A. degree in fiction from the University of California at Irvine in 2004, where she was the recipient of the Schaffer Writing Fellowship.

In addition to her new novel, December, published by Knopf in June 2008, she has also written the novel Fireworks, and short fiction pieces for Wind, the Evansville Review, The Missouri Review, The Red Rock Review, and Indiana Review. She currently lives and works in Savannah, GA

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